UPDATE: RS-232 to Diag. Connector PC Board

[Michael L. Riebs]

Uhm.. what's the board for?

Michael Riebs
Grand Rapids, MI
'90 V8Q (#7)
'98 A6Q Avant (#6)
Only 6 & 7 remain.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Traurig, Scott R" <scott.r.traurig at baesystems.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: UPDATE: RS-232 to Diag. Connector PC Board


> Hi everyone,
>
> Things are looking good for our PC board, and now I think I've got an even
> better solution!
>
> As you know, I've offered to etch a bunch of RS-232 to Diag. Connector PC
> boards (see http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/
> <http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/> ). These would be trimmed but
> un-drilled. We had discussed a price of $10.
>
> Now I think I've got us a much better deal. See
> http://www.andywhittaker.com/ecu/obdii_hardware.htm
> <http://www.andywhittaker.com/ecu/obdii_hardware.htm> . This board is
better
> than Jeff's: it supports two modes, optional fused circuit protection, and
> optional monitor LEDs. It is professionally etched, nicely screened for
> parts layout, and it will be drilled. In all other respects it appears
> identical to "Jeff's Board", i.e. appears to use the same optoisolators,
> etc. with one significant difference-it only has one RS-232 connector. For
> the diag. port end it has some solder pads for the 4 wires necessary.
>
> I've been in touch with Andy, and he is willing to entertain a volume
> purchase for 20 of them. I don't have shipping costs quoted by him yet,
but
> if he ships them all to me as a single shipment (from England) I'll think
we
> can do $10 a piece or better. His published price, as you can see, is
$13.88
> including shipping.
>
> In order to keep our costs low, I would expect anybody who wants one to
send
> me the cash or money order and a self-addressed stamped envelope. I would
> return the PC board in the SASE. DON"T SEND ANYTHING YET (you don't have
my
> address yet anyway :-). Let me get the final price first
>
> The following is the current list of interested people. I would like to
get
> this up to the full 20. Please send me mail if you want to be added the
> list. If you don't like Andy's board (I can't imagine why) and you want
off
> the list, let me know that, too.
>
> Eric Fletcher S.O.C. [steadi at mediaone.net] 1
> Bob [mx at snet.net] 5
> David Head [v8q at bellsouth.net] 1
> Frederick Smith [smitty at pcrealm.net] 1
> Orin Eman [orin at drizzle.com] 2
> Michael, Dave [Dave_Michael at Maxtor.com] 1
> Larry C Leung [l.leung at juno.com] 1
> Chris Miller [C1J1Miller at aol.com <mailto:C1J1Miller at aol.com> ] 1
> Todd Young [auditodd at mediaone.net] 1
> Me 1
>
> Total 15
>
> Finally, I've talked with Multiplex Engineering.
> (http://www.multiplex-engineering.com/)
> <http://www.multiplex-engineering.com/)> . They can supply diag. port
> connectors with pins for $5.50 each, but the minimum order is $50, i.e. we
> need 10 people. When I have the final price for the boards I will set a
> deadline for the group purchase and ask for a final commitment e-mail from
> anyone that is interested by that date. You can request a connector at
that
> time. If we get 10 or more connector requests then I will buy those, too.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Scott
>
> --
> Scott Traurig
> scott.r.traurig at baesystems.com
>