BDC-Comm Problems when setting jaguars up for CAN

[LeelandS]

Originally Posted by seannoseworthy

And to confirm that your cables are properly made when you hold the RS-232 and the RJ-11 cable face up so the contacts are facing you, are they the same or reversed. If there the same there made correctly if not you must make the cable so that they appear the same.

I'm a little hesitant to jump in here, but I did read Sean's post and read it again after the most recent comments. I'm not sure any amount an analysis of it would have lead me to attempt the 180 rotation fix which kingofleet suggested. This is mostly because it doesn't seem clear how to hold the serial port when doing this comparison. If you held the 5 pin side of the serial port closest to you the results would be opposite from if you held the 4 pin side closest to you. Again, I may just be misunderstanding the suggestion though...

I think that it would be really helpful to document the correct sequence of wire colors from left to right entering the "net ioio" port of the jaguar when facing the jaguar from the front with a serial to CAN adapter plugged in to it. It could be that this information is already out there though and we missed it.

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by SparxProgrammer

I think that it would be really helpful to document the correct sequence of wire colors from left to right entering the "net ioio" port of the jaguar when facing the jaguar from the front with a serial to CAN adapter plugged in to it. It could be that this information is already out there though and we missed it.

In fact there is a color code in the documentation from TI. I would have thought it would be useful too. That is until the RJ11 to DB9 adapter kit I got had the wire colors on the RJ11 backward from what it is on the one TI used to make the instructions. Wasted a single insertion adapter. The pin numbers and a clear diagram of how to identify the pin numbers would be best.

-Joe