Picstart + USB to Serial Convertor

[Mark Scotford]

I checked the FAQ could not find an answer to this one. Does a Picstart work with a USB to Serial Convertor? My laptop does not have a Serial port and I need to do some work in the field. Is there a USB Picstart? Which convertor worked for you?

[mister_e]

USB to serial adapter are suppose to do the same job as a regular serial port. There's no USB PICSTART. so i figure it's really suppose to work as well.

usb adapter available :

melabs http://www.melabs.com/products/accessry.htm.
SfCable http://www.sfcable.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=SC/PROD/72/UB30-40
Sewell Direct http://sewelldirect.com/USBtoSerial.asp?kid=-1712627955&match_type=search

A search on Google can give you also many other place.

[Bruce]

I use an IOGear USB/Serial converter on an HP ze5300 laptop. It works with the PicStart Plus & MeLabs serial programmers.