# Serial write char larger than 127
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/serial-write-char-larger-than-127/15449
**Category:** Electronics (Arduino, etc.)
**Created:** [November 13, 2019, 6:45am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/serial-write-char-larger-than-127/15449 "2019-11-13T06:45:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@pandl](https://discourse.processing.org/u/pandl)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 6:45am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/serial-write-char-larger-than-127/15449/1 "2019-11-13T06:45:13Z")
Thank you for reading this.
I’ve been playing with the g4p text box and the knob to send serial data to an Arduino but have run into a problem with char values larger than 127. Is there another method to serial write int values? I know that 170 is beyond what a char value can be.
This what I’m doing:
```auto
int my_value = knob1.getValueI();
myPort.write(char(my_value));
```
In this case the int my\_value can be between 10 and 170.
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### Author:  [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/serial-write-char-larger-than-127/15449/2 "2019-11-13T07:48:15Z")
i told you in your last question:
```auto
what i want to say is stay on the ( easy diagnostic ) ASCII level
until there is no other way as to write byte stream / own protocol …
```
means:
write a arduino program where you
also from the arduino IDE monitor can send type
multi character ASCII TEXT in a LINE (CR LF )
```auto
1000
```
and the arduino catch that whole String and makes a number again out of it.
* * *
if stay on one byte / character level will be ever restricted to that understanding
and that is different processing and Arduino…
run:
```auto
println( "byte "+Byte.SIZE+ " bit | min: "+Byte.MIN_VALUE+ "\t\t\t max: "+Byte.MAX_VALUE);
```
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### Author:  [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/serial-write-char-larger-than-127/15449/3 "2019-11-22T15:44:46Z")
Possibly a relevant Arduino + Processing example – the final post on this thread:
[Serial write of byte \> 127](https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=403895.msg2780365#msg2780365)