11 May
2006
11 May
'06
2:58 a.m.
On 5/11/06, Holger Veit <holger.veit at ais.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
Ethan Dicks schrieb:
As long as the opto tranceivers you are mentioning resemble the ones
found in 10BaseFL transceivers. That's all I have to work with and the
next plane isn't until late October.
... is there a simple schematic for a basic
RS-232 to fiber media converter?
If it's as simple as hooking an LED to the TTL output of a MAX232, and the
phototransistor to the input of a MAX232, that'd be super...
It *is* as simple as that (you don't use an LED and a phototransistor,
but rather pairs of
existing opto tranceivers, like the HFBR-04xx/14xx series from Agilent) - provided you just need TXD/RXD and software
handshake.
That's plenty. Actually, for the first project, just a one-way channel from
a machine to a serial-interfaced LCD screen... it doesn't respond (no buttons,
but I might want to add some later).
-ethan