Re: TI-H: IR Link for the SPinTerface Port
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Re: TI-H: IR Link for the SPinTerface Port
It really doesn't convert to RS-232. It just allows the data to be converted
to an IR light form. This design will also work if you were to implement an
actual laser and a photodiode to receive.
Osma Suominen wrote:
> Matthew H. Fogle wrote:
> >>From what I hear this link sounds like to shouldn't be to expensive to
> > make either. So you use the RS232 driver to convert the TI protocol from
> > the serial end of the link to real RS232 protocol?
>
> Wait a moment - that's impossible! A RS232 driver doesn't convert the TI
> protocol to the RS232 protocol (it just changes the voltage levels), and
> neither does the $4 serial link. You'd need a Graph Link in both ends for
> that design to work.
>
> At least I believe so until someone proves me I'm wrong.
>
> -Ozone
>
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> *** Osma Suominen *** ozone@clinet.fi *** http://www.clinet.fi/~ozone ***
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