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Federal Informer
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 4:36 am
by Dave518
Anyone with a programming cable for the Federal Informer TAR that can tell me the pin-outs on both ends so I can build one? Should be a simple DB9 to RJ-25 cable... I hope. Thanks.
Re: Federal Informer
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:34 pm
by Andy Brinkley
Re: Federal Informer
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:50 pm
by Dorf411
Cool, that gets him 1/2 way there.
Re: Federal Informer
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 4:57 am
by Dorf411
Try this:
DB9---RJ---Color
1-----N/C
2-----N/C
3-----6-----ORG
4-----3-----YEL
5-----2-----GRN
6-----N/C
7-----1-----PUR
8-----5-----WHT
9-----N/C
The cable that I have has a molded DB9 on one end that I cannot open and a 6 pin RJ connector on the other end. I am rather surprised that pin 2 is not connected on the DB end.
Re: Federal Informer
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 8:37 am
by Dave518
Thanks.
Re: Federal Informer
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:13 pm
by DrDeath
Confirmed this pinout works! Thanks Dorf411.
No idea how data is read without pin2 Rx Data. Toggle the handshake? Weird.
The cable even worked on a Serial USB adapter, but much MUCH slower. Be very patient if you're stuck with a laptop w/o a physical COM port UART.