Hi Russell, that was the trick to get communication between Communicator and Focuser running again. But didn't help in my actual issue. I can test and tune the motor with servoconfig, but can't write (and read the setting from the controller) the new settings to controller: "suspects a problem with the send", after that "no commun 1" I have to select the same port again to get connection to Addr. 1 again. Is there a special setting for the serial port? Servus Ralf