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Review on SMAKN® LCUS 1 Module Intelligent Control by Cris Drew

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Works well - cables and connections

Use it with Windows 10 and VBA in Excel to remotely turn the tester's AC power on and off. The only weird thing I've had to deal with is that every time I turn on the relay board I have to first connect to a terminal emulator like TeraTerm or MobaXterm, otherwise the relay commands will be ignored by my VBA program. Sending MODE COMx BAUD=9600 PARITY=N DATA=8 from the command line also works. Shoot a star how i feel instructions instructions would be nice as i spent a day getting this to work. For anyone interested in the VBA solution see below. Const COMport As Integer = 2Sub OpenRelay_Click() Open "COM" & COMport & ":9600,N,8,1" For binary access Read Write as #1 Place #1, , Chr(160 ) + Chr( 1) + Chr(1) + Chr(162) Close #1End SubSub CloseRelay_Click () Open "COM" and COMport and ":9600,N,8,1", to access the binary file. Read Write as #1 Set #1, , Chr(160) + Chr(1) + Chr(0) + Chr(161) ) Close #1End Sub

Pros
  • Weight
Cons
  • Some small things