Cadex Electronics Inc. C7000-C Series Battery Analyzers .
Connecting Other Devices to the Serial Port
The Cadex analyzer supports the following devices on the serial port:
•
Dymo SE250 or SE300 label printer (choose
LABEL MAKER
device setting) for printing
bar-code labels and battery labels. This is the only label printer that is supported. Use
the cable that comes with the printer to connect to the analyzer serial port and set
the port to
LABEL MAKER
. Instructions on setting the port are provided below.
•
A PC can be used to manually monitor battery data. Use the cable supplied with
BatteryShop™ to connect to the analyzer serial port or make one using the
configuration shown in Typical Serial Cable Pin Configurations, page 65. A standard
serial cable will not work. Set the serial port settings to match the PC port.
The Cadex analyzer offers these settings for the serial port:
Option
Available Settings Default
Baud Rate 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200 9600
Handshake NONE, CTS/RTS, X ON/X OFF CTS/RTS
Data Bits 7, 8 8
Stop Bits 1, 2 1
Parity NONE, ODD, EVEN NONE
To specify and set up the device connected to the Cadex analyzer serial port
1.
From the global display, press
MENU
.
2.
Press 5 or 6 to scroll to
SYSTEM SETUP
and then press
ENTER
.
3. Press 5 or 6 to scroll to
SERIAL PORT DEVICE
and then press
ENTER
.
4. Press 5 or 6 to scroll to the device to connect to the serial port:
- Use
B
ATTERY
S
HOP
to use the unit with Cadex analyzer BatteryShop™
software.
- Use
TERMINAL
to connect to a computer to display and analyze
service data (see Logging Data, page 82)
- Use
LABEL MAKER
to connect to a Dymo-CoStar SE300 label printer.