20 Aug
2012
20 Aug
'12
11:27 a.m.
[External USB - Async converter cable]
You don;'t have to tell _that_ sort of customer. Just use an odd
connector (so that they won't find anything else to plug in [1]) and tell
them to use the supplied cable to conenct it to their USB host. Put the
real infroamtion in a technical manual...
[1] Although I never cease to be amazed by what people manage to plug
into the wrong conenctors. Or indeed plug in upside-down.
That way,
users that prefer USB and/or have modern PCbs can just plug in
and go. I can make a level shifter, plug that in, and conenct said device
to an RS232 port. Bust of all worlds...
I think that's a fine idea, but you might be surprised at how many of
our customers balk at even that.
Then again, you might not be all that surprised.
It does depeect on the sort of customers I guess...
-tony