[time-nuts] RE : Re: FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-02 Thread Jean-Louis Oneto
Hello, AFAIK, the differential variant of RS-232 is RS-485. I'm not sure about the levels.  Best regards,  Jean-Louis Oneto Envoyé depuis un mobile Samsung  Message d'origine De : Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com Date :02/07/2014 21:36 (GMT+01:00) A : Discussion

Re: [time-nuts] RE : Re: FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-02 Thread jim s
On 7/2/2014 1:29 PM, Jean-Louis Oneto wrote: Hello, AFAIK, the differential variant of RS-232 is RS-485. I'm not sure about the levels. Best regards, Jean-Louis Oneto You have to control the direction of RS485. You don't have to with RS232. One of the problems with support of RS485 in

Re: [time-nuts] RE : Re: FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-02 Thread Hal Murray
jl.on...@free.fr said: AFAIK, the differential variant of RS-232 is RS-485. I'm not sure about the levels.  RS-422 is the basic version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-422 RS-485 is the multipoint version. Interesting comment from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIA-485 The EIA once

Re: [time-nuts] RE : Re: FASTRAX GPS

2014-07-02 Thread Chris Albertson
Hello, AFAIK, the differential variant of RS-232 is RS-485. I'm not sure about the levels. You might be thinking about RS-422. That is the one most like RS232. It is mostly easy to interconnect 232 and 422. Using 422 it would be easy to send a serial signal a kilometer over cat-5 wire and at