Quote Originally Posted by routercnc View Post
One final thing, there is a picture in the manual showing the VFD connected to the PC using an RJ45 cable (but obvously no other instructions - that would be too easy). The keypad for the VFD can be removed to reveal an RJ45 socket. I tried plugging a cable between the PC and the VFD, and then running the drive software on the PC, but couldn't get them to talk to each other. No big deal, but would have been interesting to try that out. Has anyone tried this or have any ideas?
What were you connecting to on the PC? Although it claims to be a serial connection it isnt the PC's RS232 modem style but RS485 which is a differential master-slave connection and can't be driven by a PC without an RS485 interface card.

[edit] ecat beat me to it again... must type faster...