| Did a brief communication test with the agilent turbo pump today, to see if we could get serial communications up and running for it. Used a simplified python script with sockets package to establish a connection and send a simple command to query the pump's operational status. The connection was successful, and had no issues establishing. The command also sent successfully, and received a response. The response didn't make sense, though, as all the possible statuses correspond to integers 0-7, and this test returned the integer 15. Need to troubleshoot some more to figure out why it's returning nonsense values. Possible match-up issue with the way the information is being encoded on each end? At the very least, connection and command sending are both working fine, and this showed that the pin-out connections we were assuming (image attached) are correct for basic connection to work. |