Serial Converters
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This is our high quality XetatroniX brand Serial to USB adapter. You won't find a better and more reliable USB Serial adapter anywhere! It is optimized for Windows 8 and Windows 7 32 and 64-bit versions but will of course also work perfectly fine with older versions such as Vista, XP, 2000 and 98.
This Serial to USB adapter is suitable for most applications, including industrial, commercial and any general office computer device. It is designed with a high performance quality processor chip which makes this Serial to USB adapter one of the most reliable and professional adapters on the market. It easily lets you connect any RS232 device directly to your computer's USB port, without experiencing any troubles like computer freeze, IO problems or any other driver problems.
This adapter is powered from your computer's USB port so no additional external power source is needed. The RS232 end is a standard 9-pin D-sub connector for easy connection of all standard serial cables.
After installing the included drivers and connecting the Serial to USB adapter to your computer, it will show up as a virtual serial COM port in Windows Device Manager where you can manage and configure it as if it was a standard built-in serial COM port.
The processor chip in this adapter is the FT232RL from FTDI Semiconductors which is one of the best and most reliable Serial to USB adapter chipsets on the market, including a ZT232E RS232 serial driver from ZyWyn USA. Documentation is available in our download section.
The Serial to USB adapter is an easy and convenient way of adding a serial RS232 COM port to almost any computer with an available USB port. The way any quality Serial to USB adapter works is by creating a virtual COM port by the help of software drivers included with the Serial to USB adapter. These drivers needs to be installed first before the Serial to USB adapter will work. Once the drivers has been installed the Serial to USB adapter will automatically install and create the virtual COM port which will show up in Windows Device Manager. This virtual COM port is actually the DB9 connector at the end of the serial to USB adapter and can be used as if it was a built-in COM port. The only thing to keep in mind when using a serial to USB adapter is that the drivers the serial to USB adapter is using is by nature causing slight latencies (data delays), this however is usually not a problem since most devices you connect to the serial to USB adapter are designed with this in mind. As long as you buy a quality serial to USB adapter most devices will work.