RS-232 to Diag. Connector PC Board

[Traurig, Scott R]

Hey youself!

I didn't have an Audi a month and half ago. In fact, I didn't even know I
was going to buy one then, either. I was still going to do a big restoration
and engine build-up on my old Talon.

Please, give us the benefit of your experience. What problems did you
encounter when you built yours? I would imagine is should work right off the
bat. Were they "real problems", or was it stuff like accidentally building
it wrong, hooking up the RS-232 wrong, etc?

I think what I'm going to do for mine, in order to keep the cost way down
(that's the whole point, right?), is to purchase the cable referred to here
(http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/multiplex.html), cut it in half, and
put the adapter in a small box inline with the cable, i.e. no separate
connectors on the box (too expensive :-).

Thanks,

st

98.5 A4 1.8TQ

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Chi Wong [mailto:clwong at optonline.net]
Sent:	Saturday, 08 December, 2001 20:10

Hey scott.

where the heck were you a month and a half ago? ;)

I built that circuit with perfboard and wires, took 2 tries and about 5
hours to get it working.  The printed circuit board will definitely help
things along, but drilling those pcb's will be a major pain in the butt!

Have you got OBDII connectors yet? (I got one as a free sample from pioneer)
How about the back shells for them?

Let me know your plans as I'm still working on the connectors for these.

I registered vag-com last nite because the demo only clears a few error
codes.  I recoded my wife's central locks last nite.... very cool to have
automatically locking and unlocking doors!!!