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Previously on this topic it was stated that the SER2 has enough power to control older TPC/ASC units w/o need for an additional serial booster widget.  For my setup, I still needed the serial booster for things to work correctly.  Here is my serial chain prior to LCS installation.  It all worked great:

 

Legacy serial output ->

DZ-2001 Data Wire Driver (to send tmcc cmds to the DZ-2500 switches)->

Serial Booster ->

TPC 400 ->

TPC 400 ->

TPC 400 ->
TPC 400 ->

ASC ->

ASC ->

ASC ->

ASC

 

The particular order of the DZ and serial booster mattered too.  The above setup was created by trial and error and once I got things in the above order, it all worked. 

 

Now enter LCS.  I wanted the WiFi so I had to get the SER2 as well due to my dependency on older serial products.  I tried hooking the SER2 up at the first TPC, removing the DZ unit and the serial booster.  Things did not work.  TPC's failed to respond and eventually stopped working, and the ASCs wouldn't respond consistently:  sometimes they would not respond at all, and sometimes they responded ok, and sometimes the responded to the wrong ID!

 

I then put the serial booster and DZ widget back in and just put the SER2 at the front of the chain, and things work fine.  I also tried a with and without the DZ to see if that was causing any problems.  Still needed the serial booster in front of the TPCs/ACSs no matter what. 

 

I'll probably leave it this way since things are currently working.

 

Cheers,

 

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