Has anyone tried using a long (about 20 ft)cable to load bin file to a receiver (Pansat 2800A) ? My Pansat and PC are far away from each other. To load bin file, I have to remove all cables and take the receiver to the PC. I do not know if such a long cable will work and if it will, where can I buy it from ?
I posted this a while back and it explains all about it. I have been using the cable for over a month now and it always works perfectly.
Thread: How to Extend an RS232 Cable
htiek Bronze Member Username: Flu_guy
Post Number: 35 Registered: Aug-07 Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 09:02 pm:
Dear All
What with the bins changing so much these days, I decided today to make an extension for my RS232 uploading cable. Now I can leave the FLU where it is, under the TV, and program it without disconnecting anything.
All you need are a couple of 9pin D connectors, 1 male and one female and some 4 conductor phone wire, (the solid core stuff, sometimes called "Quad"). I made mine about 25 feet, but longer would probably still work. You only need 3 conductors, just interconnect pins 2, 3 & 5, and leave the spare wire open. Use it to extend your existing cable, (doesn't matter which type), and plug the far end into the STB, now do your upload in the usual way.
I used this with my FLU tonight, and it worked perfectly, it was so much easier I cannot think why I didn't do this before!
If ya have nite rider lights, and are using a long cable so U don't have to move the receiver to the PC, its presumed the PC and receiver will be in differnt rooms..like a PC in a den or computer used room, and the receiver next to the TV in a living room..
if they are, how can you do uploads and use the loader on the PC , when ya can't even see the PC and receiver interreacting?..what if ya got nite rider lights?..and want force uploads?
I never heard ot this extending your serial cable, by splice and dice methods as mentioned...
Common sense tells me to get a USB ready receiver, and use a small inexpensive portable thumb drive , if ya don't want to mess with cables and connections...
Serial cable and the Industry accepted RS232 specifications go back to pre micro computer days. In those days there were terminals and modems in different rooms and a main-frame computer in a special room. The cables specs were designed to carry the signals into all the rooms of a large office complex. Loch Ness has given the maximum Baud rates for different lengths and you can go down in the speed of transmission to 19200 baud and you will be OK.
Htiek, You are right. Helper will definitely be a plus. Please confirm. Pin 2 of one end will connect to pin 3 of the other end. Pin 5 will connect to pin 5.