GETTING STARTED Owner manual

4-4 Setting up RS-232 Point-to-Point Serial Communications for a 1395 Drive
8.
In the
DTR Pulse Width (0 to calculate automatically)
field, type
0
.
Important:
If the transmission of your computer is too fast for the 1300-ITSSC
adapter, you will have to increase the value for DTR Pulse Width. Start at 500
and increase the value by increments of 100 until communications work.
9.
Click
OK
.
Connecting to the
Drive
After disabling RSLinx and configuring the DriveTools32 application, you are
ready to connect to the drive.
1.
In the
Drive
menu, select
Connect to Drive
. The
Serial Connect to Drive
dialog box appears.
2.
Click
OK
.
The DriveTools32 application is now communicating with the drive. If you are
prompted to create a new database, click
Ye s
.
Important:
If a prompt appears to alert you that the application failed to
communicate with the drive, make sure that you are using either
DriveManager32 or DriveTrending32. Other applications will not work with this
type of communications system. Also, try adjusting the settings as indicated in
step 7 and step 8. If you are still not able to communicate with the drive, refer to
Chapter 16,
Troubleshooting
.