schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Sep 2, 1:48 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Volt meter? :-) You can see the voltage reading bounce around on
> > the
>> RX pin when there's data coming over. If anything, it's the best
>> thing to check that you're not going to blow a serial port elsewhere.
>
> One time, I had a guy tell me he just stuck his tongue against the
> pins to feel for it... I figure I'll use a slightly more sanitary
> method.
This year at KFest I used my tongue on a Nadanet cable (~4v peak,
pulsed) to verify that data was being sent. ;-)
-michael - NadaNet 3.1:
http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon