Controlling Brookshire's RAPU with an Arduino

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Hello,

I’m having issues with this as well, despite having very perfect serial communication via the arduino and a RealTerm virtual terminal. So I know the code works, and the TTL-to-RS232 converter works, but even at that point, and using the 19200 baud I’m getting garbled communications from my commands. I can see the text coming back from the RAPU upon boot using my serial monitor, but the commands I send are just a little bit messed up. Here’s an example:

Command OK: $$1. Terminator set to CRLF
Sent: 0x3E(>) 0x3E(>) 0x3E(>) 0x70§ 0x6C(l) 0x61(a) 0x79(y) 0x0D 0x0A
Sent: 0x0D 0x0A

0x3E(>)
0x9E(ž)
0x70§
0xB1(±) 0x79(y) 0x8A(Š) 0x0D
0x0A
0x75(u) 0x6E(n) 0x72® 0x65(e)
0x63© 0x6F(o) 0x67(g) 0x6E(n)
0x69(i) 0x7A(z) 0x65(e) 0x64(d)
0x20( ) 0x63© 0x6F(o) 0x6D(m)
0x6D(m) 0x61(a) 0x6E(n) 0x64(d)
0x3A(:slight_smile: 0x20( ) 0x3E(>) 0x9E(ž)
0x70§ 0xB1(±) 0x79(y) 0x8A(Š)
0x0D 0x0A 0x3E(>)
0x00

Tips?

TIA!!

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Hi,

As we do not sell the RAPU, we also do not offer any support for it. For adequate support, we recommend that you contact the manufacturer here: [email protected]

Sincerely,

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Great admin, thanks for nothing I guess? Not going to let others pipe in? BTW Brookshire’s tech support is where I logically started, but thank you for pointing me back to the beginning of this path. Huge help. Seriously, I wish I could hire you to maybe be my secretary that puts everybody on hold.