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Originally Posted by wayne_h
My advice and from a cable DIY'er is to buy the GRE cable. The FTDI USB to bare cable ends is 20-ish bucks. I'd say for a plug and labor you're about equal to the cost of a brand new GRE cable.
I learned the hard way when building a SiriusConnect cable. Could have bought a premade one for less after the research and errors I made making one.
Also, the newer models use all three pins. The older models like the PRO-96 use two. You would use the 5v version and not the 3.3v IIRC. The FTDI USB cable comes in handy for various projects when the programming cables are stupidly priced.
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Actually, you may have just helped me, but not from your suggestion that I should buy the GRE data cable (I already have two of them.)
I'm looking to use my Arduino board to send control commands to the PSR-500 and if I can indeed use 5v without frying the PC/IF port, I believe I can interface directly with the scanner without having to resort to using any 'glue logic'. This would be a big win, because I can use stuff I already have to test this.