Thanks for the confirmation Don,
There was suggestion to use two low profile gender changers, one
male/male and one female/female to make it work on with he M100.
The $45 price tag is a bit steep. I'm not sure when it went up but that
was the closest thing I found to the perfect off the shelf USB cable.
Kurt
On 12/2/2015 10:17 AM, Donald Kyllo wrote:
Hi Kurt,
I have one of these cables and yes, the housing is too thick for the
M100. It works fine for the 102 and 200.
Don
On 12/02/2015 09:50 AM, Kurt McCullum wrote:
I can't check all the details right now but I believe this is the USB
to db25 male null modem cable I posted about a few months back.
Though the price at that time was $25 not $45.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FTDI-USB-DB-25-Male-Serial-RS-232-Null-Modem-with-Full-Modem-Handshake-Cable-/161782416490?hash=item25aafbc46a:g:U84AAOSwyQtV2kfV
Also, I think the housing is too thick for the M100 but there was
somebody on the list that tested it with both the 102 and 200 and it
worked fine.
Kurt
On 12/2/2015 9:00 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
If you were building one I would recommend an all in one cable that
hooks straight from a USB port to any model t particularly the model
100 with no adapters necessary.
Also it should be full null rather than defeating flow control as
the old complink cable did in order to support programs like HTERM
which rely on flow control.
And ftdi is the only way to go on Windows.
Maybe a very small pcb that can be built into a thin hood shell with
a surface mounted ftdi chip and max232?
All that said you could accomplish mostly the same thing by simply
aggregating the proper OTS parts and software and offering it for
sale as a package with documentation. That way it takes out all the
research and guesswork and that's the real trouble.
-- John.
