Hayes Accura H08-15328 Data/Fax Modem - Serial - 1 x RJ-11 Phone Line, 1 x RS-232 Serial - 56 Kbps

Hello, and welcome to Automations Insights My name is Greg Mercurio from Shop Floor Automations Today, we're gonna talk about how to add additional serial ports to your PC A lot of times, you have a PC that needs to interface to multiple machines, so in this case, we have a device that will allow you to connect up to 8 different machine tools In this scenario, we basically have a device that has one Ethernet input, where you connect and program an IP Address to it. There's a virtual COM port that is installed on your PC and then essentially there's 8 other serial ports here This will then allow you to run your RS-232 cable down to the machine control, and have 8 COM ports to send simultaneously to your machine The benefit of this device here will allow you to eliminate any kind of switch box or manual unplugging and plugging of your cables So this is the most common device we see on the