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Review on ✨ StarTech Com Black RS232 Serial Modem: High-Performance Industrial Electrical Solution by Yousef Abood

Revainrating 5 out of 5

RS232 alive and well

What I liked about it is that it worked. One of those critters, your life has changed for the worse. RS232 went the way of the DoDo bird. Unless you're working with archaic electronic devices owned by the museum. So I need a Null RS232 cable. Laptops and/or tablets and/or smartphones no longer support RS232 (aka serial port). First you need a USB to RS232 adapter + driver + a way to check if the simulated port is working. NI-Max to set up the adapter and verify that it is working. This particular cable (female-female) was exactly what I was looking for. The oscilloscope (older than dirt) I tried to talk to only had RS232 communication. Connection with 9-pin connector. The USB-RS232 adapter had a 9-pin connector. The zero cable is configured to be expected to screw into the threaded sockets. They were on the oscilloscope but not on the adapter. It still works - you just can't shake the connections much. With NI-Max I was able to query a region that identified itself. The automated testing software performed its tests without any problems. Caveats: Not all null cables are created equal. For all my uses, pins 2 and 3 had to be folded together. More complex null cables may have jumpers in the rear housings of the 9 pin guns which I don't believe this cable has. This cable twists pins 2 and 3 - pins 1, 5 and 9 go straight through. I couldn't find any jumpers. is working. What more can you ask for?

Pros
  • 1x DB9(F)/1x DB9(F)
Cons
  • Functionality