Hey ems owners I have a quick question. My tuner had forgotten to give me my cable to hook up from the ems to a laptop. I was wondering what cable can I buy from radio shack to use. Will any ol serial cable work? Also if i wanted to use my usb port is there a cable that will have a serial to usb. If so do you have a part name or number by any chance. After looking at my laptop I am not so sure if i have a serial port on here. Thanks for the help guys.

 

Any Cable will work

 

The EMS uses a standard straight-through 9 pin serial cable.

AEM recommends either on board serial bus or PC card adaptor. Some users have used USB adaptors, however, there is a concern with data transmission being corrupted. The most commonly used USB adaptor appears to be the I/O Gear model which you can find online for around $30.00 (www.newegg.com).

Cheers,
-- Chris

 

thanks guys that will definetly help me

 

Hmmm, you sure about that? I tried some Romex and it didn't work.

 

I use a standard serial cable from RadioShack and have used the IOgear USB to Serial converter from Best Buy. It worked just fine. I also tried a Belkin USB-Serial, but it was a piece of crap and didn't work.

Tim

 

usb-serial will work but it'll take you forever to actually connect to the unit

 

for computer's without a serial port, i use the IOgear! But for tuning, i picked up a 300 dollar laptop from a few year ago, that has a serial port! It is still pretty good for web browsing and word type stuff too!

 

thanks guys i may do the io gear like Tim mentioned or just get a serial card for my laptop. i just want to use it for datalogging mainly and i just ordered a serial gauge and wideband so i wanted to set those up as well. I hope its not too difficult if so I maybe calling ya Tim

 

Just for another experience I use a Belkin USB to Serial converter and have no problems.