Hi Damien,
of course I know Marcos solution very well, because he used to be a collegue
of mine and is still a friend of mine.
This solution does its job, the Mini-DIN is even a bit more rigid with
respect to the Newt case.
BUT
1) you need to have a very quiet hand and some experience in SMD soldering
2) you run the risk of damaging your Newt
3) SER-001 can be inserted/removed without any soldering
4) SER-001 offers an additional protection to your Newt with respect to the
serial interface: if you do something wrong with your serial interface the
SER-001 line driver will blow instead of the one in your Newt
I love soldering hardware and I do have some experience in soldering SMD,
but I went for the SER-001 and I am finally happy with it and I still
believe that this piece of hardware is more than worth the money.
Think about it.
Johannes
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Damien Batstone
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] I'm killing my dongle
> Hi Johannes,
> We're discussing Marco Mailand's connection direct to the LTC1323 chip
> (http://newted.dyndns.org/users/mmailand/www/Npages/DK/DK.html) to a mini
> Din8, which is much cheaper than SER-001, but is more hassle, may
> cause RF
> interference, and can fry the chip. I don't have a dongle, and
> the guy who
> originally asked has collapsed his port.
> Cheers,
> Damien
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