Review Details

36 inch USB to Serial RS232 FTDI professional adapter

Product Review (submitted on April 7, 2018):

Worked as advertised. I interfaced it directly to a Microchip PIC32 USART output with only Tx, Rx, and ground and it had no problem with the 3.3V even though thats barely above the 3.0V RS232 spec. Ran it at 115200 to Tera Term and another serial terminal app on Windows 10. Main problem was discovering that the PIC32 had to invert transmitted bits otherwise gibberish was displayed. Used a DB9 breakout connector to attach my wires to the PIC32 board, and found I needed to attach the PIC Tx to the DB9 Rx, had them hooked up backwards for a while without any damage. The website for getting the driver was very opaque, but I muddled through and got the current driver.