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bhpmini

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Hi all what db9 to usb serial cable have you found to work and where would you recommend to get one from thanks

ms2 is beyond me come back carbs all is forgiven why did I decide to modify a spi mini *frown* to late to turn back now so please put up with my stupid question and humour me


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You need a straight through cable as described in the megamanual

http://www.megamanual.com/ms2/V3assemble.htm#serial

Something like this male to female.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/serial-rs232-9-pin...to-female-97735

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Get this, nice and long, well cheap and worked a treat for me. You need to google "usb serial driver prolific" and download one because the one that comes with the cable doesn't work

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-RS232-SERIAL...=item35afe48ac8

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somthing like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-RS232-Serial-9Pi...=item5ad912b731

the USB cables are hit and miss in my experience,

I use a PCMICIA adaptor, woth considering if your laptop has a ocmcia slot


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PCMCIA-RS-232-Serial...=item336448433b

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I have been considering the FTDI based adapter over the Profilfic based, since the Prolific appear to be a bit hit and miss.

And, i would like to pay a little more than £1.99 delivered!!!! How the fuck can anyone make a proffit on that!! never mind manufacturing it!! I'd be happy to pay £20 delivered for a brand*happy*

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bhpmini

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On 10th Feb, 2011 dan187 said:
Get this, nice and long, well cheap and worked a treat for me. You need to google "usb serial driver prolific" and download one because the one that comes with the cable doesn't work

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-RS232-SERIAL...=item35afe48ac8


will give that a go for £2 lol witch one you donloaded of google as 1000's or will any do ?

ms2 is beyond me come back carbs all is forgiven why did I decide to modify a spi mini *frown* to late to turn back now so please put up with my stupid question and humour me


dan187

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Can't remember but have found the installer on my pc
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15661286/PL2303_Pr...taller_v110.zip

I think that's it.

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On my old Dell laptop, I've used the Prolific 9 pin to USB convertor and had no problem with the original Prolific driver straight out of the box. Worked a treat but I did have to cut the metal shroud off the 9 pin end of the cable as there were earth problems which lead to issues to begin with. Once sorted it works fine on the old Dell.

On my new laptop, I use a PCMCIA card to USB adaptor and that communicates with MS real good too.

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