RE: Re: New Current Cost Unit on sale...

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, have some MAX232's somewhere on the bench or in the cupboard,
finding
them may be the problem and SWMBO's nagging about the current linear filing
system, so perhaps a ready-made cable may be safer than being caught
tidying
up as I could end up having to tidy the entire office :-(

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Andy Powell
Sent: 18 February 2009 09:24
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: New Current Cost Unit on sale...


If you insist on making your own have a look here...

http://e.inste.in/2008/06/15/interfacing-the-currentcost-meter-to-your-pc/


On 18 Feb 2009, at 09:21, Stuart Poulton wrote:

> As Andy has said it's TTL, 3v TTL, so it's not going to go too far
> before voltage drops cause the signal to become un-reliable.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stuart
>
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 09:19 +0000, Paul Gale wrote:
> > Alex,
> >
> > Are you thinking of extending the distance from the unit to the
PC
> over Cat5 then? Wonder how far it would go?
> >
> > Paul.
> >
>
>
>

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