I had intermittent terminations of the USB link of LVB Tracker using the internal LVB Tracker USB to serial port adapter header with SATPC32 . I tried many different configurations to resolve and it pretty much failed during every satellite pass at least once when I tried to use it.
I would have to close SATPC32 and close ServerSDX manually , turn off the El-AZ controller power and then back on to reset the USB link, restart SATPC32 and then it would work again till the next USB link failure. It occurred randomly, but often enough to be a problem.
This occurred with three different computers running Win-XP, Vista and Windows 7.
As others have suggested, I replaced the USB adapter header assembly with a MAX-232 and now use an external ATEN USB to serial adapter.
I have had no problems with LVB Tracker since doing this.
73, Bill NJ1H
On 4/3/2013 7:03 PM, Dave WØDHB wrote:
John
I agree with Mark, that' what I did with my LVBTracker FWIW.
Mouser has the MAX232's for a couple of $$
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark L. Hammond Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 11:45 AM To: George and Cheryl Abbott Cc: [email protected]; Alan Biddle Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Windows 8
John,
Another thought/recommendation--remove the USB interface board from the LVB Tracker and install a MAX232 chip so you can use the "real" serial port in the tracker box. Then, use a USB to serial adapter on your Win8 machine--one that supports Win8 of course. You can then have serial control, and not worry about the USB drivers in the trackbox.
You will never regret going from USB to Serial port on the Trackbox...that's my experience, anyhow.
73,
Mark N8MH
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:23 PM, George and Cheryl Abbott [email protected]wrote:
Thanks for sharing this information with me.
-----Original Message----- From: Alan Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:28 AM
To: 'John Price' Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Windows 8
John,
I have, lightly, tested SATPC32 on my Surface Pro with WIN8 64 bit. It installs and runs without difficulty. I have a different rotator controller, so can't comment directly. I tried a variety of USB-Serial dongles, and all the ones which use the FTDI chip loaded a new driver and worked perfectly.
As you may know, the Prolific chipset is the choice of pirates, and many knockoffs have counterfeit chips. The latest Prolific drivers detect these, and refuse to run. At least that is the explanation I have seen. I have a USB GPS like that, but was able to find an older Vista/WIN7 driver which runs perfectly on WIN8 64 bit.
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:28 PM, John Price [email protected] wrote:
I am about to attempt to migrate my satellite station to Windows 8
operating system on my new HP Pavilion. Has anyone experience with this. Will Satpc32 run under windows 8 64 bit? How about the USB driver for the LVB tracker? I doubt the old one I used for XP will work. Nothing else I used that required a driver worked even with the Windows 7 drivers I used on the laptop. Any help or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
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