Can a Dongle be used as a RS485 adapter?

[frankr]

Hello all,

I had one of my D-light usb->RS485 adapters give up the ghost on me and I am scrambling to find a solution.  The show goes live Tomorrow and I can not run a segment due to the lose of this connector.

So this leads to the question:

Can the Lynx dongle be used to send generic RS485 or will it only be able to send DMX?  I realize that DMX is run over RS485 but I believe that the dongle is doing some "value add" by buffering the data and ensuring a smooth DMX stream.  I would think that the LOR protocol data would not function properly with that buffering stream.

Any thoughts? Has there ever been a firmware load for the dongle that would accommodate this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Frank

[RJ]

No it can not. The dongle is a dedicated DMX device it is not like a Enttec Open which is just a RS 485 convertor and the computer does the work. The dongle creates DMX itself and only gets update data from the Computer.

RJ

[frankr]

Thanks RJ

That was kind of what I thought.  I have back-up dongles but no backup on the RS485 adapters...

Frank