Re: Re: CurrentCost serial cable wanted

[John Benfield <john.benfield@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/3/5 Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxx>:
> John - just to clarify that you are extending the RS232 as per Craigs
> very helpful post below....   I know it's tempting to extend the
already
> co-operatively terminated CC128 connection via an RJ45 patch panel but
> that's not the way to do it..  The drivers in the CC128 unit are not
> only low voltage but also likley can't handle any capacitive loading
either.
>
>  K
>

Kevin,

Yes it's the handy CC cable I'm trying to extend. Basically I'm coming
out of the CC128 via a patch lead, into a wall socket to patch panel,
patched then through more cable to another wall socket. I am then
attaching the supplied RJ45 to USB cable to my PC. I get data ever 6
six seconds or so but completely garbled - like the wrong baud rate
has been selected. Played around with the serial setting but due to
the hardcoded setting in CC128 these don't make any difference.

I'm going to get my old Linitx PC up and running and connect at the
patch panel (which I know works). All I then need to do is write some
code to forward the data onto my WHS which is running Cacti.

JB


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