[geeks] Suggestions for USB to serial adapter?

der Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Fri Aug 21 15:39:36 CDT 2009


>> However, FTDI does sell cables that terminate in bare wires that I
>> would assume you could easily cripm into an RJ45 jack.
> If you have a wire stripper and snips, any cable can terminate in
> bare wires.

Nice theory; not so nice in practice.  I've seen cables whose "wires"
have insufficient physical strength to make that practical - cases like
this usually have some mechanically _very_ light conductors wrapped
around something nonconductive but (comparatively) physically strong.

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