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USB TO RS485 User Guide

Introduction

This is an industrial USB to RS485 converter with original FT232RL inside. It features embedded protection circuits such as lightning-proof, resettable fuse, ESD protection, and TVS diode, etc. It's pretty small in size.

Features

  • USB to RS485 communication
  • Adopt original FT232RL, fast communicating, stable and reliable, better compatibility
  • Onboard TVS (Transient Voltage Suppressor), effectively suppress surge voltage and transient spike voltage in the circuit, lightning-proof & anti-electrostatic
  • Onboard self-recovery fuse and protection diodes, ensures the current/voltage stable outputs, provides over-current/over-voltage proof, improves shock resistance
  • 3 LEDs for indicating the power and transceiver status

Specification

  • Product type: industrial converter
  • Baudrate: 300-921600bps
  • Host port: USB
  • Device port: RS485
  • USB:
    • Operating voltage: 5V
    • Connector: USB-A
    • Protection: 200mA self-recovery fuse, ESD protection
    • Transmission distance: about 5m
  • RS485:
    • Connector: screw terminal
    • Pins: A+, B-, GND
    • Direction control: hardware automatic control
    • Protection: 600W lightning-proof and surge-suppress, 15KV ESD protection (onboard 120R balancing resistor)
    • Transmission distance: about 1200m (low rate)
    • Transmission mode: point-to-multipoints (up to 32 nodes, it is recommended to use repeaters for 16 nodes or more)
  • LED indicators:
    • PWR: red power indicator, light up when there is USB connection and voltage is detected
    • TXD: red TX indicator, light up when the USB port sends data
    • RXD: red RX indicator, light up when the device ports send data back
  • Operating environment:
    • Temperature: -15℃ ~ 70℃
    • Humidity: 5%RH ~ 95%RH
  • Operating system: Mac, Linux, Android, WinCE, Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 / XP

User guide

Driver installation

  • Connect the module to host PC, check Device Manager, if the device is listed with the yellow exclamation mark, it means that the driver was not installed.

  • Download the driver form #Resources, unzip, and install it.
  • After installing, you can find that the mark disappeared and a COM device is listed

Testing

RS485
  • You should prepare two RS485 device
  • Connect A+ to A+, B- to B-, and connect them to host PC.
Run SSCOM software to test.

  • Expected result