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Old 10-11-2011, 05:21 PM   #103
ivanjt
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Originally Posted by nikkie View Post
Can you post the cabling diagrams (wiring colors) for folks without multimeters for these cables? Thanks!
I think most 9 pin serial cables follow the standard resistor colour code only shifted one place - it is rather difficult to assign zero to a physical cable.

Colour code:
black - 0 shifted -1
brown - 1 shifted - 2
red - 2 shifted - 3
orange - 3 shifted - 4
yellow - 4 shifted - 5
green - 5 shifted - 6
blue - 6 shifted - 7
purple - 7 shifted - 8
grey - 8 shifted - 9
white - 9 shifted - -

That is how the old cables were wired that we have and it is also how most, but not all*, of the cheap chinese cables we cut up are wired.

*some cables use only 8 wires, 1 to 8 and follow the ethernet 568B wiring colour code.
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