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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: RS 232 & RS-422 voltage specs wanted
- Message-ID: <C0EJx6.FBo@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:31:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.022447.20082@uts.uni-c.dk> <1ic8hnINNn10@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1ic8hnINNn10@uwm.edu> albrecht@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Chad Edward Albrecht) writes:
- >Standard RS-232 uses +/- 5VDC
-
- Sigh. WRONG. Or at least, not very right.
-
- Standard RS232 transmitters must produce something between +5 and +15
- and something between -5 and -15. Note that that is +5.000 and -5.000,
- so you can't do it with +/-5V supplies (although some sleazy people
- try anyway). Most RS232 nowadays is done with either +/-12V or +/-9V,
- the former popular with people who already have +/-12V supplies and
- the latter popular with chips that generate their own supplies (because
- +5, doubled, less a diode drop or two, either straight or inverted,
- comes out at about +/-9).
-
- RS232 receivers must accept anything between +3 and +25, and anything
- between -3 and -25, with the threshold slightly positive so that
- 0 looks negative.
-
- RS423 uses +/-5. It is roughly RS232 compatible and can run faster.
-
- RS422 (real RS422, not the differential RS423 that Macs use) uses
- +5 and 0. It is not RS232 compatible.
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