Hal,
You don't need a MAX232 and besides those things burn out so often mine
are now socketed. Also, the capacitors required are awkward and don't
last more than twenty years.
I throw down the challenge. Connect a couple of transistors and a couple
of resitors as a TTL/EIA level converter. Use the DTR pin forced high
and RTS pin forced low as voltage sources. There's lots of ways to do
it. Connect a PNP emitter to DTR and collector to DCD. Connect a 1 K
resistor from there to RTS. Connect the base to the collector of a NPN
transistor via a 100 K resistor. Connect the emitter to ground. Connect
the base via a 1 K resistor to the TTL source. Easy.
Dave
Hal Murray wrote:
Terje, what's the power consumption?
Low enough to steal power from the RS-232 port?
Garmin's data sheet says the GPS 18-LVC takes 60 mA.
TI's data sheet for the MAX207 says typical short circuit current
is 10 mA.
It wants between 4 and 5.5 V. Even if you find a driver with enough
current, there is no guarantee that the voltage will be reasonable.
Probably better to use the USB trick. I've seen similar hacks
stealing power from the keyboard/mouse connectors.
On the other hand, I have a SIIG CyberPro/CyberSerial PCI 4S that
has jumpers setup to feed out 5V or 12V on some pin. The documentation
doesn't say which pin or how much current.
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