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Worked on soldering a RS232 on it.
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 4:39 pm
by Raymond Day
I used the small connectors to do this. I solder the 4 pin one to the RS232 and then I pulled the pins out from another connector and used a power wire off a bad PC fan it has a 3 pin connector on the end of the wire that plugs right in the USB to RS232.
So I just pushed the pins to the connector but that did not work good it don't do a good connection. I did get some RS232 Data but messed up a lot.
Unsolder the connector and when I went to solder the wires right in I pulled a trace off the RXD2. So is there a place right on the board were I can solder that?
- Used wire wrap on it and them on the pins out of one of the connectors on the ends. So fits super good in the board holes.
- VoCore RS232 cable.jpg (50.41 KiB) Viewed 7863 times
Re: Worked on soldering a RS232 on it.
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:16 am
by Vonger
Looks good
Re: Worked on soldering a RS232 on it.
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:59 am
by Raymond Day
Looked at PDF of the board. But I don't see were the RS232 would hook up to other places.
Order another one and this time I am sure I can get it right.
It be neat if they could put a like phono stereo plug on it for the RS232. The same way I seen old TiVo's did it.
Re: Worked on soldering a RS232 on it.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:49 pm
by Raymond Day
Got my 2nd one today and this time I could solder the RS232 on it better. I got this photo of it so can see the solder job in the bottom right corner of the scan of it.
- VoCore_solder_good_RS232.jpg (191 KiB) Viewed 7834 times
Re: Worked on soldering a RS232 on it.
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:41 am
by Raymond Day
It must be working good. My putty to COM port 3 been on it over a day now. Here is the last part of the boot text and press enter at the end and do uptime command:
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procd: - init complete -
[ 28.110000] device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 28.110000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 28.140000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 28.150000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 30.150000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 32.890000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 32.940000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 42.080000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 42.090000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 42.100000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 44.390000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
BusyBox v1.22.1 (2014-09-17 17:35:56 CST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
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|__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
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CHAOS CALMER (v1.0, r42586)
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* 1 1/2 oz Gin Shake with a glassful
* 1/4 oz Triple Sec of broken ice and pour
* 3/4 oz Lime Juice unstrained into a goblet.
* 1 1/2 oz Orange Juice
* 1 tsp. Grenadine Syrup
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root@OpenWrt2:/#
root@OpenWrt2:/# uptime
05:30:45 up 17:05, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
root@OpenWrt2:/# uptime
18:46:55 up 1 day, 6:21, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
root@OpenWrt2:/# uptime
07:34:48 up 1 day, 19:09, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
root@OpenWrt2:/#
I got it powered with a solar cell right now too.
Re: Worked on soldering a RS232 on it.
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:10 pm
by Greenwire-Elektronik
If you want to reuse your vocore, you probably should try the dock or the breakout board, the metal ring around the vias are not very strong ...