I've had no problems with any of my USB dongles (pl2303 & belkin f5u103) un=
til moving to win 8 Now none of them work.

I was in the final stage of a GPS design using an ftdi232 chip when I found=
 out this, so I'm hoping that works when I get around to populating the boa=
rd.

Joe
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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of alan.b=
..pearce@stfc.ac.uk [alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk]
Sent: 03 October 2014 12:14
To: piclist@mit.edu
Subject: RE: [EE] choosing a USB - RS232 adapter

The best adapters are those using FTDI chips. Any that use the PL2303 chips=
 are suspect as there are apparently clone PL2303 chips around that will no=
t run with the driver under Win7 and later.

Search for FTDI cable on farnell, and you should find something suitable, o=
r go directly to the FTDI web site as they sell cables as well.

>
> Hi, please can anyone suggest any known and trustworthy USB <-> RS232
> converters available to the UK?
>
> I'm not sure what fails to work properly with some of them, perhaps bad
> handling of handshake lines or something like that. Anyhow I just want to
> buy one that won't need sending back.
>
> The intended device is a small thermal printer that uses 9600,8,N,1
> configuration, so nothing extreme required!
>
> Much appreciated,
>
> Matt
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