Scanmate 11000 monitor program and maintenance
Scanmate 11000 monitor program and maintenance
Hello Guys!
Thank you for all your help. Jack send me the manual and after a lot of trying with different computers I found out how to make a connection to the scanner, so I want to write a short explanation for everyone:
I did not get it to work under Windows 7 and also not under Mac OS 9.2, don´t know why.
I finally did it under Mac OSX 10.6.8 with an ordinary Mac Book. Others report that it is also very easy to do under Windows XP but I have no XP here.
First of all, one has to make a cable. I found one with RJ45 on the one end, and RS232 on the other laying arround in my cellar, but after all it had not the right PIN connections.
Everything we need to make a cable is an ordinary Cad5e network cable and a separate RS232 connector. We can buy these things in an ordinary store for electric parts.
After that, the network cable has to be cut on one end. The leads have to be identified and then have to be soft soldered to the RS232 connector following this pattern Jack wrote in an other post:
RJ45 ------------ RS232
2 (orange)------- 3
3 (white-green)-- 2
4 (blue)--------- 5
What we also need is an USB to Serial adaptor and the drivers.
Now we can start:
- Connect the USB to Serial adaptor to the computer/Mac
- Install the drivers
- Restart the Mac
- Connect the selfmade cable to the scanner and the adaptor. The scanner has to be turned OFF!
- Load from the internet this little program (goSerial):
http://www.furrysoft.de/?page=goserial
- Start goSerial, tick the marked button and select the displayed values.
You also have to select the USB to Serial connector you use under "Serial port". If this does not show up, there is most probably a problem with the driver:
- Select "Ok"
- Tick the button in the left upper corner right next to the button we used before. Now a red cross is shown over this button.
- Now turn on the scanner with the thumbwheel for the SCSI selector on position "8".
- There we are, now we can speek to the scanners firmware.
- To understand what to do we need the manual. Email me, if you need it.
I found an other instruction for Windows XP in the Yahoo scanner group:
Hi Bob,
I just set up another computer to run the monitor program; here is a
step-by-step procedure (XP only, I can't help with your MAC). Start with the
cable connected, dip switch on the scanner set to 8, and the scanner off. In
XP, go to start, all programs, accessories, communications, Hyper Terminal,
click OK. A new window will open; name the connection and click OK. In the
next window select the COM port that you have the cable attached to, click
OK. Another window will open, select 9600bps, 8 Data Bits, Parity none, stop
bits 1, and flow control none, click OK. At this point, the Hyper Terminal
should show connected with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner, NOW
switch on the scanner and the program should start. If the program does not
start, set up a new connection using a different COM port, if it still doesn
't work go to the refrigerator, get a cold beer then go outside and enjoy
the nice CA weather!
Gale
