Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 0:17 Post subject:
I put a header on my adapter then used clips to connect it to the router. This device has a db9 connector and plugs into a USB to serial converter.
I just set it up & it works well. I posted where I got it earlier.
I had another one which I use for something else & didn't want to mess with that one as the voltage & plugs I installed are specific for its use.
Total cost for the ttl <=> serial adapter, header with wire harness & clips about 15 bucks. I already has the usb to serial adapter. _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
Last edited by barryware on Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:34; edited 1 time in total
Personally I wouldn't mess with that micro USB board I used.. I really struggled with soldering something so small.. I would recommend RedHawk's setup.. the pin headers with clips. I ordered a crap load of those pin headers, if u decide to use RedHawk's setup I'd send you some no charge.
Pock
Thanks but like above, Im not in the US.
Quote:
I put a header on my adapter then used clips to connect it to the router. This device has a db9 connector and plugs into a USB to serial converter.
I just set it up & it works well. I posted where I got it earlier.
I had another one which I use for something else & didn't want to mess with that one as the voltage & plugs I installed are specific for its use.
Total cost for the ttl <=> serial adapter, header with wire harness & clips about 15 bucks. I already has the usb to serial adapter.
So is this a solderless solution?
And my question is that in this picture:
I see on end of the clips attached from the router to another end of the clips attached to wires with those wires being attached to the serial interface. Can that serial interface simply be plugged into a serial interface on a PC?
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 18:10 Post subject:
riahc3 wrote:
barryware wrote:
The voltages don't mean anything. Just don't connect to two (pc @5V and the router @ 3.3V). This voltage supplyed is to power the ttl adapter.
Explain these things:
1: What do you mean "Just dont connect to two"? typo.. S/B don't connect THE two
2: What is the ttl adapter? the gizmo with the db9 connector
Im sorry for being a pest I just dont wanna fuck anything up.
Personally I wouldn't mess with that micro USB board I used.. I really struggled with soldering something so small.. I would recommend RedHawk's setup.. the pin headers with clips. I ordered a crap load of those pin headers, if u decide to use RedHawk's setup I'd send you some no charge.
Pock
Thanks but like above, Im not in the US.
Quote:
I put a header on my adapter then used clips to connect it to the router. This device has a db9 connector and plugs into a USB to serial converter.
I just set it up & it works well. I posted where I got it earlier.
I had another one which I use for something else & didn't want to mess with that one as the voltage & plugs I installed are specific for its use.
Total cost for the ttl <=> serial adapter, header with wire harness & clips about 15 bucks. I already has the usb to serial adapter.
So is this a solderless solution? no, still soldered a header to the router pcb
And my question is that in this picture: don't understand the question
I see on end of the clips attached from the router to another end of the clips attached to wires with those wires being attached to the serial interface. Can that serial interface simply be plugged into a serial interface on a PC? yes.. my rig I use for this (laptop), does not have a serial port so I use a usb serial adapter
Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 5266 Location: CENTRAL Midnowhere
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 23:07 Post subject:
barryware wrote:
riahc3 wrote:
PLEASE do not reply quotes like that. It is VERY annoying.
Really sorry.. It won't happen again (sarcasm) Barryware. Quit being annoying. If you don't have anything not annoying to say, don't post! If you aren't going to be helpful, then don't be helpful
barryware wrote:
S/B don't connect THE two
riahc3 wrote:
You are going to have to explain yourself alot better.
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Yes. Now go to your room young Barryware and don't come out until you are ready to explain yourself a lot better, young man. It's going to be the pogo stick for you if you don't.
Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 5266 Location: CENTRAL Midnowhere
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 16:21 Post subject:
Riahc3. Your persistence on this issue is to be commended, but I think it is obvious to many that you are in the situation of lacking a basic foundational knowledge of what you are trying to do. This is not your fault, but it will require you to do quite a bit of work and research to get you to the point where people can actually assist.
In addition, telling people that their effort and time to assist was annoying you, was probably not a wise practice.
Everything you need, if you are able to attempt this, has been provided...sometimes many times. But the level you are currently at is not the level in which this understanding is sensible to you. Each basic question leads to 25 more even more basic questions, to the point that the questions become scary and it becomes obvious to all that you need to be at a slightly higher level to receive help over the internet.
I don't mean to discourage you, but I think it is important that you understand the reluctance of some to assist. You need to spend a few days researching things like what a header is, and how to attach it, and the many articles and links on working a serial device. When you are at that level, everything that is posted should make sense. But people don't wish to help you wreck things.
You need to put individual effort in to bringing your level of understanding up first.
Riahc3. Your persistence on this issue is to be commended, but I think it is obvious to many that you are in the situation of lacking a basic foundational knowledge of what you are trying to do. This is not your fault, but it will require you to do quite a bit of work and research to get you to the point where people can actually assist.
In addition, telling people that their effort and time to assist was annoying you, was probably not a wise practice.
Everything you need, if you are able to attempt this, has been provided...sometimes many times. But the level you are currently at is not the level in which this understanding is sensible to you. Each basic question leads to 25 more even more basic questions, to the point that the questions become scary and it becomes obvious to all that you need to be at a slightly higher level to receive help over the internet.
I don't mean to discourage you, but I think it is important that you understand the reluctance of some to assist. You need to spend a few days researching things like what a header is, and how to attach it, and the many articles and links on working a serial device. When you are at that level, everything that is posted should make sense. But people don't wish to help you wreck things.
You need to put individual effort in to bringing your level of understanding up first.
I just wish you to understand why some are reluctant to move forward on this thread.
I have done a similar project like this using my Xbox and a X3 modchip where I had to use a pin header, solder, connect the correct wires making sure I grounded EVERYTHING else a overvoltage will ocurr, etc. This is not my first electronics project.
My main "doubts" are:
The whole 3.3V/5V issue. Ill restate again: A PC (ocorrding of course to a thread given by a member here) outputs 5V while my router outputs 3.3V. This would cause the router to fry. I understand now that I need a ttl<>rs232 adapter being that one end has about 4 pins which I believe are GND, TX, RX, +5V and another end has a simple rs232 de-9 male/female PC port. I solder a 4 pin header (or whatever; cut off any unneccesary ones) into GND, TX, RX, +5V on the tll end of the tll<>rs232 adapter and attach another pin header into where this site says I should on my router. Now with gator clips I at....
HANDBREAK!
If I do this then attach the rs232 to my PC, I will fry the router. How can I solve this? THATS what I want to know.
Joined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 104 Location: Peoria Illinois
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 20:25 Post subject:
riahc3,
The whole 3.3V/5V issue is easily solved by using a device that converts it over.. The Micro USB board, and RedHawk's device handles all that.. No worries if you go either my way or his. Though I recommend his.
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To think, after all this time, all our chats together you still don't trust me. There's hope for you yet, doctor.
The whole 3.3V/5V issue is easily solved by using a device that converts it over.. The Micro USB board, and RedHawk's device handles all that.. No worries if you go either my way or his. Though I recommend his.
Pock
Using the explanation Ive posted before your post, what would be a "device" that converts this (The power)?
(sarcasm)
