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Serial Rs232 I/o Control

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Hi, I have an HMI (Intouch) node and want to know if I can some how use it to flash a beacon (120VAC) when an alarm is detected by the software. Are there any serial RS232 or parallel I/O device with a DDE I/O server that will do this job? I don't want to install a PLC and I just need one discrete output that can be written to by Intouch scripting or by Visual Basic. Thanks

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i am new to this forum. i see that nobody posted any reply to your question. anyway, answer is yes. if you have RS232 port and you can program it, you have what it takes to read/write some I/Os. In your case all you need is one output (realy would be fine). check out ADAM modules from Advantech (take a look at modules from 4000 series). They are easy to program and not too expencive. There are other brands with simmilar products but in my area, Advantech is easy to get...

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i am new to this forum. i see that nobody posted any reply to your question. anyway, answer is yes. if you have RS232 port and you can program it, you have what it takes to read/write some I/Os. In your case all you need is one output (relay would be fine). check out ADAM modules from Advantech (take a look at modules from 4000 series). They are easy to program and not too expencive. There are other brands with simmilar products but in my area, Advantech is easy to get...

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