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« by cambosoup99 on January 15, 2013, 10:24:18 PM »
...... ebay converter above does work. 2. Piece of network cable (any will do, I'm using cat5e network cable) ............ your computers serial port and just run a longer network cable to your VFD) converter assembled: ............ .JPG The only wires you will need from the network cable is Pin 5 and Pin 6. (observe orientation ............ color code, I'm using cat5e network cable) connection drawing.jpg Pin 5 to ............ would be to custom build a twisted pair, shielded network cable. The next step is to config the x200 and ............ control.jpg At this point you can connect your network cable and test your setup to see if you can read ......