Don't rush to actually order this one just yet! I think I made the holes
too small for the through-hole connector. I forgot I was supposed to
check the actual connector before finishing up.
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bkw
On 7/7/20 7:29 PM, Gary Weber wrote:
Brian, that looks to be a great solution actually! I may indeed have
Oshpark build me one.
Yes it does require USB power and I've been trying to figure out how to
supply that by alternate means. I believe the WiModem232 with OLED
would draw way too much current to power from a BCR port though. Maybe
a battery solution like you suggest is the right way to go.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 4:21 PM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com
<mailto:b.kenyo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Looking at the wimodem...
how about this?
https://oshpark.com/projects/1DZoRBEt
Untested since I just drew it up now. It acts as a male-male
gender-changer for the rs232 pins, connecting pin2 to pn2, 3 to 3 etc,
for pins 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,20,22
The WiModem stands up instead of projecting out of the back, and the
light and oled faces the user.
Seems power is awkward for the WiModem though. If it needs a usb power
source, then standing up like this you'd really want a right-angle usb
cord. Myself, I would probably hack on a lipo battery and usb charger
module or get power from the system bus or barcode ports on the M100 or
something.
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bkw
On 7/7/20 12:46 PM, Gary Weber wrote:
> > Won't you run into the same (actually worse) problem in that case?
>
> Jim, you're absolutely right; trying to adapt that would be even
worse...
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> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:16 AM Jim Anderson <jim.ander...@kpu.ca
<mailto:jim.ander...@kpu.ca>
> <mailto:jim.ander...@kpu.ca <mailto:jim.ander...@kpu.ca>>> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I'm halfway tempted to desolder the female DB25 on my
WiModem232 and
> > replace it with a male version just to eliminate the
gender change
> > entirely.
>
> Won't you run into the same (actually worse) problem in that
case?
> The pin order of the male connector is left-right reversed
from the
> pin order of the female connector... unless you put a bit of
> adapting cable/PCB in between...
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> jim
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