- #Meade autostar ii 8 pin vs 4 pin how to
- #Meade autostar ii 8 pin vs 4 pin serial
- #Meade autostar ii 8 pin vs 4 pin driver
- #Meade autostar ii 8 pin vs 4 pin code
What you could do is see if there is a local phone tech who would make up a short bit of 4 wire flat and one end. I just crimp a connector on one end then soldered the other to the DB9. Thats how i started out, but i had a lot of 4wire flat phone cable and connectors and a crimper. I might have another option in purchasing a telephone handset connector which I believe has an rj9 connection standard, then cutting off one end & soldering correct wires to a db9 connector as per your diagram. That could be lots of things, but doesnt sound good.
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Sometimes I had continuity, sometimes I didn't. Retested continuity, this was a bit tricky & I got patchy results. Good, that means the expensive bit works :-)Ĭarefully prised apart the db9/rj9 adapter & as far as I can tell it is wired as per your photograph. Successfully shorted out the tx/rx pins on the serial/usb db9 connector & sent & received :GC# command. Not 100% sure how I go about testing the dB9 connector, I assume it involves carefully removing it from it's casing to get at the back of the pins whilst it is connected to the serial/usb adapter?Ĭan you advise if the RJ11 slots line up with the RJ9 slots? I can then test that part of the connection independantly.Ĭan relate to crappy ADSL, we were lucky to get 3Mb/s on ADSL here NBN for the past 12 months, much, much better but, on Fibre to the node so will be interested to see how our connection fairs in the FNQ wet season.Īndrew & I have been communicating via PM to try and establish what is causing the problem.įor anyone following in an attempt to trouble shoot their own connection issues here was Andrew's response (in Blue) to my latest post: :) I'll try that again using the fine fuse wire to give myself something to put the probes of my multimeter against. I thought I had tested continuity but, given how I attempted that, possibly not actually. I will try some very fine fuse wire I have & see iif I an insert into the slots on the plug. With regards the use of flat blade screw driver, I thought the metal strips on the bottom of the rj9 connector were the contacts & that I could short out across them.
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I am really grateful for your assistance but, wonder if we might be able to speak in real time, via Skype chat or, even Skype video call perhaps?Īgree, the firmware is pretty old I have just been chatting with previous owner - he never attempted to connect to a computer so, never updated the firmware & at least confirms for me that we don't know whether the able ever worked that is helpful in some ways.
#Meade autostar ii 8 pin vs 4 pin serial
Otherwise, from the tests I have attempted, does it indicate that the either the cable or the serial plug (Meade supplied I believe) don't work? Should I try other terminals on the plug in case it is wired incorrectly, I did read somewhere that a batch of these cables came out incorrectly wired.
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#Meade autostar ii 8 pin vs 4 pin how to
I have to presume I actually managed to cross connect the terminals, not sure how else to do it & not sure how to verify that I did in fact cross connect them.
#Meade autostar ii 8 pin vs 4 pin code
I then used the send button on the terminal screen using the default code that was in in the edit box ':gc#' and also typed in a string of characters.
#Meade autostar ii 8 pin vs 4 pin driver
I used a small flat blade screw driver to cross connect the terminals. Ie: turned the plug upside down so the locking tab was on the bottom & if you look at the plug end on, I believe it should be the first two terminals on the left.
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terminals 1 & 2 using the diagram available on Weasners. I then attempted to loop across the tx/rx terminals on the rj9 plug that plugs into my handset. It tried across a number of baud rates & could not find the scope. Your program certainly found a comm port & looked for a scope (using the auto function. I think I have tested the cable & USB/serial adapter. Not necessarily a big deal as the handset functions as it should. I bought the scope secondhand, I suspect the firmware may never have been updated. can't be 100% sure coz I may not have a clue what I am doing. Well, I think I have done this correctly.