Laser LS8000-3 manual Zcrlf

	LaserSpeed 8000-3 Instruction Handbook
	Appendix E: Troubleshooting Guide
	few commands to lock into the new baud
	rate.
When using a terminal program,	Terminal Program Settings The gauge terminates all transmissions
all the data from the gauge prints	with a carriage return. Both a carriage
on the same line.	return and a linefeed are required for
	HyperTerminal to start printing the next
	transmission on a new line.

		Enable the "Append line feeds to
		incoming line ends" option in
		HyperTerminal.
When using a terminal program,	Terminal Program Settings	The gauge expects all commands to end
only the first command after the		with a carriage return. If you have the
gauge is turned on returns a		"Send line feeds with line ends" setting
response.		checked in HyperTerminal, when
		you type the command, you are
		transmitting "Z<CR><LF>" instead of
		"Z<CR>", where <CR> is a carriage
		return, and <LF> is a linefeed. The
		gauge expects all commands to end with
		a <CR>.
		When you transmit:
		Z<CR><LF>
		Z<CR><LF>
		Z<CR><LF>
		Z<CR><LF>
		The gauge sees it as:
		Z<CR>	ok, gauge responds
		<LF>Z<CR>	ignored
		<LF>Z<CR>	ignored
		<LF>Z<CR>	ignored
		Because the first character in the
		received command is invalid, each
		command after the first one is ignored.
		Disable the "Send line feeds with line
		ends" option in HyperTerminal to fix.
Communciation problems:	Wiring	Make sure you are connected to the User
Bad characters, intermittent		Ground (pin 11,19,21) and not the Power
failures, etc…		Ground (pin 12,13).
	If using RS-232 over a long	Switch to a lower baud rate
	cable, the baud rate may
	too high.

Switch to RS-422 for

RS-422 uses differential signals that have

Part No. 93463 / Drawing No. 0921-01561 Page 208 of 221 Revision A (Sep 2007)