Micro serial servo controller - rs232 ascii communication?

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Hi,

I have a Galil motion controller with an rs-232 port that as far as I know will only communicate through ascii. I would like to use that port to control a Polulu micro serial servo controller. I clearly don’t know enough about rs232 and ascii, but is it just a matter of sending the correct ascii characters to the Polulu device that represent the correct sequence of bits/bytes as spelled out in the Micro Serial Servo Controller manual?

Thanks much,

Aaron

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Hello.

We do not have any servo controllers that work with just ASCII characters. To use our controllers, you need to be able to send the full range of byte values, from 0 to 255. If your controller can really only send ASCII, it might be able to send only a subset of those 256 values. That would be quite restrictive for a general-purpose controller, so you should check if that is really the case.

- Jan