albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: > I tried using a long serial cable. Just because I had some 100 feet of > cat-5 wire already installed. It did not work reliably I was using a MAX232 > chip as a driver.
Were you using it as 8 separate wires or 4 pairs? I'd expect RS-232 to work over 100 ft of Cat-5 if you used half of each pair as a ground. (That's at 9600 baud.) -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
