Does anyone have schematics for a simple breakout box? A couple of times I have wanted to add monitoring LEDs to a project, but on the RS232 side, not the TTL side. Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams SavanaPics@AOL.COM wrote: > Rather than software. I would reccomend using a breakout box. I repair ATM > machines for several banking institutions as well as your local convenient store > and my breakout box stays in the tool kit. This will actually show you the > signals on both sides. Jameco sells the identical unit I use for about 23.00. > Good thing about it. it is simple. plug it in and look at the signals. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.