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hitsware
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Posted: 03:44pm 08 Sep 2014
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But new to me !

Really helps not to have to hassle
with their cable .
( I bought one, and if it would have
worked right, I'd be using it )

Edited by hitsware 2014-09-10
 
Grogster

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Posted: 08:21pm 08 Sep 2014
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RevEd made no secret of the specs of their cable - I assume you are talking about AXE027 USB programming cable.

I have used a few USB cables to program PICAXE chips, including the common PL2303 one.
The key thing is that the USB adaptor has to be able to output a special signal that the system uses in programming over USB - native serial ports are no problems, but only some USB-Serial adaptors have the required signal. This is primarily why RevEd started selling their own cable, which was guaranteed to output the correct signals.

I have a couple of AXE027 cables, and I never had any issues getting them going.
I do seem to remember that you did have to install a RevEd USB driver for the cable - that might be your problem if you happen to be using Linux, which it seems you are by the pathname, as the RevEd driver will be a Windoze driver, not a Linux one.
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