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[sumguy16]

I have been working with the Serial Miniature Bluetooth for awhile now and have been able to transmit from the BlueTooth Remote to the PC at every possible baud rate. I have been trying for about the past week to transmit from the PC to the remote device. I have hooked up an o-scope and I get a constant level of 5V+ on the Tx Pin, is this normal? I cannot get anything to come out of the Tx pin other than logic level high. I may have tried to transmit on the Tx pin before at 5Vdc, would this damage the remote module?

Thanks,
Adam

[sparky]

Hi,

The BlueSMiRF is 5V tolerant so that should not have been a problem. I don't think you could have done damage by hooking TX to TX. We fully test all units before we ship. We can certainly test the unit for you.

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-Nathan

[Paul]

I have been working with the Serial Miniature Bluetooth for awhile now and have been able to transmit from the BlueTooth Remote to the PC at every possible baud rate. I have been trying for about the past week to transmit from the PC to the remote device. I have hooked up an o-scope and I get a constant level of 5V+ on the Tx Pin, is this normal? I cannot get anything to come out of the Tx pin other than logic level high. I may have tried to transmit on the Tx pin before at 5Vdc, would this damage the remote module?

Thanks,
Adam

Hi, I think that is because you are not converting the TTL output of BlueSMiRF to RS232 level required to transmit data to a computer.
Paul