Hi folks, I have now got my RS232 Level Translator working and I have duplicated Matt's response from the E2, fast flashing LED's followed by about 13 ACK's then nothing for roughly 15 seconds than carry on booting normally. I'm now waiting for Ralph to finalise his latest and greatest version of exp.exe and I will run this on BOTH the E2 and E3, (different cables, because the E3 has a "proper" RS232 interface), and I will report results as soon as I have them. I am also in the fortunate position of being able to leave the system running for as long as it needs to read whatever we want from the E2 or E3, (only 1 at a time, I only have 1 host PC to use for this). Cheers Peter