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Old Aug 20, 2013 | 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff_Ciesielski
No problem.

$65

Yes.
Payment sent thanks again!!!
Old Aug 22, 2013 | 07:37 PM
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I have a 1992 1.6 turbo car with the LINK from flyin miata. I only have the handheld device, not the "data cable" or whatever they called it.

Is this what I need to start data logging and tuning using a pc?

If so I would like one please!
Old Aug 23, 2013 | 07:58 PM
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Hi Jeff!
Do you still have these for sale?
If so, is it still $75 usd shipped to Portugal?
If yes to all, give me your paypal adress.
Thank you!
Best regards
Old Aug 29, 2013 | 01:11 AM
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Paypal payment sent. Thank you Jeff.
Old Aug 29, 2013 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by romanm
I have a 1992 1.6 turbo car with the LINK from flyin miata. I only have the handheld device, not the "data cable" or whatever they called it.

Is this what I need to start data logging and tuning using a pc?

If so I would like one please!
If you have a working ribbon cable, then this will let you connect to your PC. You'll also want to grab a copy of dataloglab.
Old Aug 29, 2013 | 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by VinceOC
Paypal payment sent. Thank you Jeff.
Thanks Vince. It will be a couple days before it goes out (we need to assemble a few more).

Minute Man and romanm, let me verify that we have sufficient parts before you send funds.
Old Sep 5, 2013 | 08:26 AM
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Payment sent
Old Sep 5, 2013 | 04:24 PM
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Got it today. Thank you very much!
Old Sep 23, 2013 | 05:20 PM
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Coming late to the party. I'd like to buy one. Do you still have them?

Thanks.
Old Sep 25, 2013 | 03:12 PM
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We don't have any right now. We neeed to make another batch.
Old Sep 25, 2013 | 03:19 PM
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Let me know when you run another. I'm in.
Old Sep 25, 2013 | 03:30 PM
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i will advise that if you cna get your hands on a laptop that has a serial port, do.
being a network administrator and having to console into devices i gotta say.. **** USB ADAPTERS.
unreliable pieces of ****.
when the company went from dell D630's and D830's i kept like 3 laptops...
the new laptops don't have serial ports.
they still think i'm stupid..until they try a usb adapter..then they come begging for my laptop.

again, D630's should be going for about 100 bucks
they are dual core and very capable of running windows7 and even better when XP is running....
Old Sep 25, 2013 | 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Alejo_NIN
i will advise that if you cna get your hands on a laptop that has a serial port, do.
being a network administrator and having to console into devices i gotta say.. **** USB ADAPTERS.
unreliable pieces of ****.
when the company went from dell D630's and D830's i kept like 3 laptops...
the new laptops don't have serial ports.
they still think i'm stupid..until they try a usb adapter..then they come begging for my laptop.

again, D630's should be going for about 100 bucks
they are dual core and very capable of running windows7 and even better when XP is running....
As someone who writes device drivers and designs products (at my day job) which ship with an FTDI on the board, I will admit that they have their quirks. Since they act as an intermediary and buffer the traffic, incorrect settings can absolutely **** all over your good times if the software you're using was written to use some shitty windows specific features. FTDI generally allows you to modify both the internal buffer maximum and minimum latency settings which affect how the device driver (and by extension, the software using it) will react to IO events. (I've found that setting latency timer to 1ms, buffer size to 4k and using 0 as a minimum latency is a pretty good fit for 115200 <= baudrate <= 921600)

Now, having said that, the device at my day job (speaking over ftdi usb->serial) communicates at ~1mbit with 0 drop out. And the protocol is a fuckton more complicated than any serial terminal

The failures I've seen with USB->Serial adapters on Windows have stemmed from the serial communication layer of the software relying on win32 events and the FTDI driver playing nicely together (they don't) which caused random errors manifesting themselves in the form of several bits in a given packet (usually in the last byte or two) being corrupted. This mode of failure is also present with USB audio devices, leading me to believe that the windows USB stack is beyond fucked (USB audio operates via isochronous endpoints, which require timed events). We overcame this issue by simply not using the win32 event mechanism and writing our software accordingly.

TL;DR: If you set it up properly, it'll work properly.
Old Sep 25, 2013 | 06:57 PM
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Jeff, Adapter received. Thanks!!
Now, just have to try it...
Old Sep 25, 2013 | 08:57 PM
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in other words..
unless someone like you who know about drivers sets it up correctly, the rest
of us humble windows users are fucked.

lol

but i see what you did there...

Originally Posted by Jeff_Ciesielski
As someone who writes device drivers and designs products (at my day job) which ship with an FTDI on the board, I will admit that they have their quirks. Since they act as an intermediary and buffer the traffic, incorrect settings can absolutely **** all over your good times if the software you're using was written to use some shitty windows specific features. FTDI generally allows you to modify both the internal buffer maximum and minimum latency settings which affect how the device driver (and by extension, the software using it) will react to IO events. (I've found that setting latency timer to 1ms, buffer size to 4k and using 0 as a minimum latency is a pretty good fit for 115200 <= baudrate <= 921600)

Now, having said that, the device at my day job (speaking over ftdi usb->serial) communicates at ~1mbit with 0 drop out. And the protocol is a fuckton more complicated than any serial terminal

The failures I've seen with USB->Serial adapters on Windows have stemmed from the serial communication layer of the software relying on win32 events and the FTDI driver playing nicely together (they don't) which caused random errors manifesting themselves in the form of several bits in a given packet (usually in the last byte or two) being corrupted. This mode of failure is also present with USB audio devices, leading me to believe that the windows USB stack is beyond fucked (USB audio operates via isochronous endpoints, which require timed events). We overcame this issue by simply not using the win32 event mechanism and writing our software accordingly.

TL;DR: If you set it up properly, it'll work properly.
Old Nov 3, 2013 | 10:04 PM
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Can I still buy one of these?
Old Nov 4, 2013 | 10:04 PM
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In for the next batch, need one really bad.
Old Nov 22, 2013 | 05:14 AM
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I'm in for a set as well, PayPal ready. Please pm me for fastest respond.
Thanks
Old Mar 4, 2014 | 02:06 PM
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Are these still available?
Old May 6, 2014 | 05:22 PM
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I'm also interested if these adapters are still available

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