On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:20 PM, David A Aitcheson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason, > > You have my attention! Could you please provide us with a URL to said > referenced purchase?
In general go to http://www.usbgear.com and click on USB serial. They've got a lot of form factors (cable end, octopus, desktop boxes, surface mount boxes, rack mount boxes, and I believe some DIN rail mount models), and they generally list the chipset used. The particular one I'm using is http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=USB-16COM-RM&cats=199&catid=493%2C494%2C474%2C199%2C461%2C106%2C1009%2C601 I've had it in limited use for about a year, but I've only completely populated it and gone into full production mode in the past few months, connected to a bunch of APC UPS units, some switch consoles, and some SPARC server console ports. No problems so far. I've also got one of these: http://www.digi.com/products/model?mid=221 It's probably 10 years old at this point, still going strong. The ports seem to have a unique ID, although I only have one of these boxes so I can't really say for sure. The nice thing about this one is that it works with Solaris. Those are all server room applications interfacing to UPS units, serial consoles, etc. On my temporary balloon chase mobile rig, I use one of these: http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?x=-1082&y=-74&lang=en&site=us&KeyWords=USB-COM232-PLUS4 It's from FTDI, works great. This particular chip has 4 RS232 ports on a single IC. (My 16 port rack mount is 4 of these things in one box.) I just wish they'd provide an enclosure with it. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
