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Has anyone ever attempted or know how to bend salt crystals for use in xray monochromator diagnostic setup of radiation spectrum measurements? I have heard that one could use a saturated heated salt bath to deform NaCl crystal to aid in diffraction of xrays in spectrum measurement setup. I am...

Tom, I appreciate your efforts as I too did the very same investigation with the exact same information. I know that the unit is very well engineered and developed for the time (1998). I sent several emails to the company with a few replies as the inquiry was focused on the GUI software...

Berkeman, I finally got the unit to hook up to the RealTerm Serial Capture program and the The leds on the db9 breakout tester light up. it still appears to be waiting on an handshake or trx signal to activate etc. At least i got this far recently as I dusted the unit off the shelf and started...

Haborix, I tried to do this the other night but you at least had some success so my hats off to you! I am looking now to see if anything comes up as this was built in 1998 -2000 time period etc. Thanks for your effort!

I am on the rails trying to decide on the fate of the SD100 Monochromator. The device self checks and appears to be functioning so I may try to sniff and send various commends to decipher what commands do what in the unit since it is self contained unit with detection and point max etc. Anyone...

I just found out their is an interface software used to connect the SD100 unit to a labview application etc. This interface is called "SD100 Console Application" This allows the unit to communicate on its stand alone user interface, which is a labview application, In labview its a virtual...

The Verity SD100 Unit uses a Software called SpectraView (tm) which I haven't been able to track down. I am hoping possibly someone who has worked with this unit might be willing to either share or explain the possible working relationship between a PC and the Scanning Spectrometers Data linkage...

I think what i need to do is try to find the original software to see what drivers and readers are being used on the rs232 lines to figure out the operational functions of the Verity device. I know its a big stretch but backwards engineering of this device is driving me bonkers. If i can figure...

I took my Infinicon XTC crystal controller unit and hooked the Serial RS232 connector and observed the same type of interaction of flickering on the Txd led monitoring unit. So it must be something consistent on the interaction appears to be the same. Must require a signal to transmit form the...

Yes that would be a way to cross check on a working unit and can figure out what does what. I haven't tried this perhaps it might be worth a try to see etc. Ill try it and get back here and let you know what I find.

Yes I used the PuTTY software and hit keys randomly and notice the lights on the Txd flickering especially when I change the baud rate down to 900 etc. Xon Xoff is selected with raw data set etc. Nothing happend on the other lights etc.

I finally got back to use the RS232 Breakout led monitor. What I observed is the only light that came on at first power on was green which flickered to red on the Txd led and stayed red until the self check was complete. No other leds were observed to come on. I suspect that the Txd led is...

Berkeman, I just ordered one of those RS232 Breakout Led monitor units I will check and see what I get when it arrives etc. I will be traveling til the end of the month so I may not get to test and see what I am getting til the beginning of next month. I really appreciate what you have suggested...

Great Investigative work!!!!

Berkeman No i did not see anything to change or switch the serial connection settings etc. Berkeman, Sorry i just got this message I will read the crib notes to see if I can use any of the suggestions etc. Thanks!!!