I have a 2000 and have no problems with it interfacing with xastir. I ran my cable from the junction box, not the display unit itself, but don't recall any issues with the wiring.
I also have no problems with xastir displaying the negative temps correctly. 73 - Matt On 9/2/07, Rick Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Rick Green wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Rick Green wrote: > > > >> Last spring at Dayton, I splurged and bought myself a refurbished Peet > >> Bros. weather instrument, an 'Ultimeter 500'. It has a 6-pin rj-style > >> connector on the side of the display unit, which according to the manual > >> can be used for the optional PC data logger. > > /snip/ > > I eventually found some info on the peet bros. site itself: > > > > http://www.peetbros.com/HTML_Pages/faqs.htm > > > > Data is 2400/8/N/1 > > > > Pinout is: > > 1 - special > > 2 - +5v > > 3 - Output > > 4 - N/C > > 5 - Ground > > 6 - Input(U2000only), N/C(U100;U800) > > > > My Ultimeter 500 appears to be an Ultimeter 100 with a built-in inside > > temperature sensor. > > > > > > > Additional (Critical!) information: Peet Bros numbers their modular > connectors Backwards from the way I'm accustomed to. Looking at the > female 6-pin modular, pin 1 is on the RIGHT with the keyway on the bottom. > I've got a cable made up, and am looking at data with hyperterm on an old > win98 machine. Next step is to install a multi-port serial card in my > linux machine so I can feed the data to xastir. > Each data field is four ascii characters representing hex digits. When > I interpret the hex digits as a binary integer, it seems to make sense. > Temperature is in tenths of a degree F. I'm curious if they have a means > of representing negative values? From the manual, I see that Peet Bros. > is a Florida company - maybe they didn't realize it sometimes gets cold up > here! > > -- > Rick Green, N8BJX > > "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little > temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > -Benjamin Franklin > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
