serial COMs with I-Boxes; DL-05

[Ryan_Poethke]

Hello all!
I post to the AD forum from time to time, but this is my first post to the HOST site.  I've never done COMs between a GS2 drive and a DL-05 PLC before, and even with the new I-Boxes, I'm still confounded as to what I need to do to get the two talking.  I'm just shooting for run/stop, speed, direction, and acel/decel times right now, over an RS232 link.  Is there an I-Box example for reading and writing, specific to the GS2?  I've gotten as far as getting the drive to display a COMs error, so I think my port setup and cable are correct, but I don't know where to go from there.  I know this has to be simple, but I'm just not seeing it.  As an aside, a new feature for the rel. 6 might be a set of I-Boxes specific to the GS series of drives, to make things as painless as possible.  Thanks in advance for any help.

Sincerely,
Ryan Poethke

[MikeS]

ryan, this may not be the best place to get help for that question because 'we don't have a dog in that race', the automationdirect forum is probably the better choice - try thier tech support too, they're quite helpful.

the iboxes are intended for use with hx-ecom & hx-ecom100 modules - although they will work with the hx-dcm modules as well becasue the plcs interact the same way with dcms and ecom/ecom100s.

we have been involved with folks using our ecom100 and gs-edrv to create a control connection to a gs2 over ethernet, but not serially.

there may some folks on our forum that are familiar with doing this, and if so, i hope they chime in with some help.