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Programming Cable Help

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 7:26 am
by pluto1914
Can someone post a picture of their Motorola XTS USB Programming Cable - specifically the pins. Mine has ceased fuctioning and looking at the pins it appears that 2 are missing.

Thank you!

David

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:51 am
by kotaguchi
Here is a pic of a Motorola OEM USB programming cable pinout for the Astro 25 Series portable:

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I use my cable all the time so I know it is not missing any pins.

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:54 am
by kotaguchi
Now if you have a XTS3000/Jedi series USB programming cable,Motorola never made a USB version of the Jedi/XTS3000 cable.

Moto only made a serial port version.

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:57 am
by akardam
kotaguchi wrote:Motorola never made a USB version of the Jedi/XTS3000 cable.

Moto only made a serial port version.
To be entirely accurate, they only ever made a Jedi/XTS3000 cable for a RIB. You can't hook it up directly to a serial port and expect it to work.

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:20 pm
by pluto1914
Here is mine...Looks broken. GRRRRRR! :x
Image

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:55 pm
by kotaguchi
Yeah,from your pics,if I am seeing it correctly,bottom from the left row,starting from the last pin,those two upper pins looks like they are missing?You likely can fix it very easily by replacing the pins?

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:56 am
by pluto1914
Perhaps someone could repair it. Not me though. :) I am going to have to get a carrying case for this thing. I normally carry it in my laptop bag with a few other cables.

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:38 am
by Jim202
You might try to obtain some of the heavy industrial zip lock type plastic bags. They make a good carry place to
keep cables like these.

Jim


pluto1914 wrote:Perhaps someone could repair it. Not me though. :) I am going to have to get a carrying case for this thing. I normally carry it in my laptop bag with a few other cables.

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:40 am
by Tom in D.C.
Save yourself some money and put the cable in a small/medium Ziploc plastic bag. Several of these in a computer
carrying case/bag will keep the cables from "interacting" in their own.

Re: Programming Cable Help

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:57 pm
by Will
Only a few pins are used in the RIB version.

http://batlabs.com/images/mt2kpin.gif