RS232 to Eaton Leonard Interface v2.0 – First Run

RS232 to Eaton Leonard Interface v2.0
(Bottom View)

Well, there it is. That’s one of the first pieces of the RS232 to Eaton Leonard Interface v2.0, part of the lot of five I assembled tonight. They are bagged up and ready for delivery so that the customer can test them out before the inital install (at one of their customer sites) at the end of the week. The PCBs were ordered last week as a prototype run and they arrived today, so I got to work as soon as the UPS driver showed up with the box.

Everything went great with the boards, and the v2.0 design meets all its goals. It is simpler than v1.0, easier for me to assemble, uses fewer parts (both count and type), and can be configured to talk to itself. Yep, this one can act as either end of the cable. Thanks to this the jumpers can also be configured so that a simple loopback can be plugged into its EL connector and all the electronics on the board can be tested outside of a production environment. (This makes testing loads easier for me as well.)

So, that’s about it. I’ll be assembling the rest of the first run this week and weekend and hopefully delivering them early next week. Yay!