Tuesday, July 03, 2012

delivered Kendrick cable

Brought the custom-built Kendrick remote control cable from home to the CAO this weekend.

In June, I had figured out the pin outs for the Kendrick Premier RJ-11 connector and "classic" computer serial DB-9 female plug.

DB9F:
2 - red
3 - orange
5 - green

RJ11:
2 - black
3 - red
5 - yellow

the inter-connections:
DB - RJ
2 red - 3 red
3 orange - 2 black
5 green - 5 yellow

The hacked cable worked! Reprogrammed the controller from the laptop computer:
  • changed the duty cycle of output 1 to 85%
  • changed temp delta to 7 degrees
  • set output 2 to follow 1
At home, I soldered and shrink-wrapped everything. Verified operation. Now CAO operators can easily control the Kendrick system with the PC software.

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