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Victor Fraenckel Victor Fraenckel is offline
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Default Sea Talk, NMEA

Meindert Sprang wrote:
"Victor Fraenckel" wrote in message
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You might have a look at:

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/pro...roducts_id=718

I have had very good luck with this FTDI board. If you try one, be sure
to get the drivers from:

http://www.ftdichip.com/index.html

I have NOT experienced any port hopping with this puppy!


That is indeed the right chip. But that board outputs TTL levels and I'm
afraid Matt needs to connect it to ordinary RS-232 stuff.

Meindert


Level shift it with the MAX232. I don't know of a ready-made solution
for this though.

Vic