Re: Gizmo hardware problems

Bill Clawson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.technology.erps
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If I remember the RS-232 spec correctly, the input
range goes from +/- 3V (min) to +/- 12V (max).  The
level comparator in the typical RS-232 receiver is
running at about 1 or 1.5 V, so you can get away with
quite alot.  The drives/receivers are inverters, so
you might check to see if your signal is inverted as
some people use the non-inverted RS-232 signal for
communicating on-board.


--- David Masten <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, I wrote the flight control code. I have no
> idea if it works.
> 
> We went to test it, but it didn't initialize the IMU
> correctly. So I
> went back to the imutest code and tried that. Works
> great from my laptop
> and the build server, but not from the PC/104. We
> checked everything we
> could think of, even brought out the O-scope to look
> at what was being
> sent to the IMU. The only difference between serial
> signals from my
> laptop and the PC/104 is the PC/104 is running +/-9V
> the laptop +/-5V.
> The build server runs +/-12V.  Unfortunately we
> didn't have a breakout
> box to see both sides of the serial at the same
> time.
> 
> Dave 
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