On 15 Dec 2008 at 21:07, Alexandre Souza wrote:
DEC had boards
like that for going from TTL to RS232 as modules and
for current loop (TTY) to RS232 or the other way around. There were
a lot of "things" that often had oddball interfaces like Ham radio
tranceivers that could be driven by computer but only had serial TTL.
You can use the good old max 232 and 5 1?F caps.
I bought a tubeful of TI MAX232Ns, thinking that they were the same
as the MAX232A--nope, the "N" takes 1.0 uF caps and the "A" uses 0.1
uF.
If I had to do it over again, I'd use a MAX233 (only a single 1.0 uF
decoupling cap) or a MAX202 (0.1 uF caps).
Cheers,
Chuck