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super9shop PL2303HX USB to TTL to UART RS232 COM Cable module Converter

3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
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Brand super9shop
Connector type usb
Cable type USB
Compatible devices Personal Computer
Special feature High Speed

About this item

  • Built-in TTL COM PC-PL2303HX Chip
  • Standard USB type A male and TTL 4 pin connector
  • Available for Linux, Mac, WinCE and Windows (XP, 2003), Vista Win 7
  • Red VCC,Black GND,Green TXD,White cable RXD
  • 1 PL2303HX USB TO TTL TO UART RS232
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1x PL2303HX USB TO TTL TO UART RS232 , Fit For ARM 8051 AVR PIC LINUX MCU USB TO TTL CABLE Include One Downloader, with four colored-wire : black?GND/ red?VCC /white?RXD /green?TXD

Product details

  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.4 x 2.29 x 1.02 cm; 15 g
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ 4 July 2012
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ super9shop
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008AGDTA4
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ TTLX1P
  • Guaranteed software updates until ‏ : ‎ unknown
  • Customer reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 298 ratings

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3.8 out of 5 stars
3.8 out of 5
298 global ratings

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Customers like the performance, quality and value of the electronic cable. They mention that it works well, is effective and is useful. Some appreciate the value for money.

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Customers are satisfied with the performance of the electronic cable. They mention that it works well, is an effective gadget, and is very useful. Some say that it worked fine with the Raspberry Pi, but they had a little trouble at first. Overall, most are happy with the product's performance.

"It works fine with the Raspberry Pi, but I had a little trouble at first...." Read more

"Great value, useful gadget...." Read more

"...coding matches the pin-out show in the Adafruit tutorial and works like a charm." Read more

"...I'm happy to report it works flawlessly...." Read more

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Customers are satisfied with the quality of the electronic cable. They mention that it is of very good quality, excellent, and amazing.

"...Product is well made. When plugged in, my Win 7 PC found and installed the driver automatically and even told me which COM port it was using...." Read more

"...I is a shame this let them down as product was good price and very good quality!" Read more

"...Otherwise, this is a well made product originating from China...." Read more

"Absolutely amazing really proud of it and happy with wat I can use it for. I would highly recommend it to others" Read more

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Customers appreciate the value of the electronic cable. They say it's a useful gadget, affordable by any pocket, and has great value.

"...I is a shame this let them down as product was good price and very good quality!" Read more

"...then figuring out which is RX and TX then it works well and for the price is excellent...." Read more

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"This cable is good and affordable by any pocket...." Read more

Great with correct drivers and correct RX/TX wires.
4 Stars
Great with correct drivers and correct RX/TX wires.
I had problems initially getting this to work in Windows 8.1, I found some drivers on Prolifics website which got it working here: http://www.prolific.com.tw/us/showproduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41Then I had problems programming and Arduino Pro Mini and thought it was maybe my soldering or a dodgy cable. I was getting the error: avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00There are lots of solutions on the internet but non fixed mine. I then saw a comment about the RX TX being swapped on some cables, swapped mine around and it all worked.Once you get past the driver issue and then figuring out which is RX and TX then it works well and for the price is excellent. Hopefully picture shows the cable connected to an Arduino Pro Mini (my soldering is very bad)
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G. Hewson
5.0 out of 5 stars Works fine with Raspberry Pi
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2013
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It works fine with the Raspberry Pi, but I had a little trouble at first. Unlike other reviewers, I had to swap the green and white leads (RX and TX) compared to the Adafruit lead.

Also, I couldn't get the converter to work initially with a USB extension lead. I was getting errors logged in /var/log/ saying "device descriptor read/64, error -71" and "unable to enumerate USB device", though it was OK plugging the converter directly into the USB socket. I even bought a new USB extension lead: no difference. I don't know if the converter is fussy, or my computer, but plugging the extension into a different socket (actually, the hub on my monitor) fixed the problem.
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Nigel
5.0 out of 5 stars Suitable for Raspberry Pi
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2014
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Purchased from Super9, fulfilled by Amazon, to interface with Raspberry Pi. Product is well made. When plugged in, my Win 7 PC found and installed the driver automatically and even told me which COM port it was using. Wiring colour code matches Adafruit tutorial, the green Tx is 3.3v, as required for Raspberry Pi.
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TeeJay
3.0 out of 5 stars Will nor work on Windows 10
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2015
This product works fine under Windows 7 and Linux, but IT WILL NOT WORK WITH WINDOWS 8 or 10. This is because it uses a legacy Prolific chipset that is end of line and Prolific have no plans to develop drivers for it beyond Windows 7. Notwithstanding that, the lead works very well!
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William Moodie
1.0 out of 5 stars Very Unhappy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2014
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Advertised as expexted delivery in 5 days, once bought changed to 3 weeks. Said based in UK, but was sent from China. I bought this from them as I needed it fairly soon and would have only bought if product was already in UK as I have been cought like this before.
I is a shame this let them down as product was good price and very good quality!
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S. Horner
4.0 out of 5 stars Great with correct drivers and correct RX/TX wires.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2015
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I had problems initially getting this to work in Windows 8.1, I found some drivers on Prolifics website which got it working here: http://www.prolific.com.tw/us/showproduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41

Then I had problems programming and Arduino Pro Mini and thought it was maybe my soldering or a dodgy cable. I was getting the error: avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
There are lots of solutions on the internet but non fixed mine. I then saw a comment about the RX TX being swapped on some cables, swapped mine around and it all worked.

Once you get past the driver issue and then figuring out which is RX and TX then it works well and for the price is excellent. Hopefully picture shows the cable connected to an Arduino Pro Mini (my soldering is very bad)
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S. Horner
4.0 out of 5 stars Great with correct drivers and correct RX/TX wires.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2015
I had problems initially getting this to work in Windows 8.1, I found some drivers on Prolifics website which got it working here: http://www.prolific.com.tw/us/showproduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41

Then I had problems programming and Arduino Pro Mini and thought it was maybe my soldering or a dodgy cable. I was getting the error: avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
There are lots of solutions on the internet but non fixed mine. I then saw a comment about the RX TX being swapped on some cables, swapped mine around and it all worked.

Once you get past the driver issue and then figuring out which is RX and TX then it works well and for the price is excellent. Hopefully picture shows the cable connected to an Arduino Pro Mini (my soldering is very bad)
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David Precious
5.0 out of 5 stars Cheap, effective gadget
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2014
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Great value, useful gadget.

Hooked up to my Raspberry Pi as I type this - powering it via USB and providing a serial console to access it.

For easy reference, I connected it as:

Red (5V): pin 2 (top left), white pin 8 (UART TXD), green pin 10 (UART RXD), black (ground) pin 25 (bottom right).

I'm using Linux; I connected with:

sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
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Reynaldo Abreu
5.0 out of 5 stars Does what is says, helpful color coding
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 August 2013
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This is exactly what I was looking for to work with my headless Raspberry PI. Although much cheaper than from other sources, it took a couple of weeks to arrive from mainland China. The cable arrived in perfect condition with no instructions at all but the color coding matches the pin-out show in the Adafruit tutorial and works like a charm.
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Imran A.
5.0 out of 5 stars good, delivered well in time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2018
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good , delivered well in time. product as described.
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Donna W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Works for FTDI programming of Arduinos too...
Reviewed in the United States on 16 February 2015
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This little cable works quite well. At first I didn't realize that it was one pin short of being a proper FTDI cable for programming devices like Arduino boards (or even the Raspberry Pi according to one reviewer). I haven't tried it on a 3.3V Arduino, but it does work very nicely on the 5V boards -- provided you do one little trick...

Since it doesn't have the DTR (only a transmit and receive -- Tx and Rx), it can't reset the Arduino circuit for you to put it in the bootloader. That's what the DTR signal is used for during FTDI programming of those devices. However, all you have to do is when you click 'upload' (if building from the Arduino IDE) or run the Makefile (if running from the command-line or other IDE as I do on Linux), is press the Reset button on your Arduino board manually when avrdude launches. Works like a charm.

Though you do have to get the baud rate correct -- I messed that up the first time when running manually from a makefile on Linux. The ProMini boards need 57600 whereas the Uno is 115200. That took me a bit to figure out. Though if you are running from the Arduino IDE, just select the correct board in the menu and you are set...

The other thing is to get the pinout correct. First time out, I got the Tx and Rx backwards too... Here's the pinout for connecting to the Arduino boards:

Red = +5V VCC (only needed if you aren't powering your board with its own supply)
Gnd = Gnd
White = Connect to the TXO pin of the Arduino (PD1)
Green = Connect to the RXI pin of the Arduino (PD0)

I've only tried this cable on Linux. There it just works with nothing special. Though it came up as device /dev/ttyUSB instead of /dev/ttyAMC0, so be sure you select the correct device on the menus or enter the correct one on the command-line. I think for Mac you need an FTDI driver installed -- as I know I had to do that on my MacMini once when talking to the USB port of an Uno board (the generic FTDI drivers should work for it), but I haven't specifically tested this cable there. And I haven't tried it at all on Windoze... Presumably it works there too.

Overall, I like this cable and am well pleased with it.
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Lila
5.0 out of 5 stars economico ma funziona
Reviewed in Italy on 24 December 2015
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Preso per salvare un piccolo router wifi che si era brickato durante un aggiornamento ufficiale, ha fatto egregiamente il suo lavoro per una cifra irrisoria, anche se ovviamente serve un po' di pratica e di verifica dei pin
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Pratik
5.0 out of 5 stars Works perfectly
Reviewed in India on 21 October 2014
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I used it to unbrick my routers.
My tplink 3420 and linksys wr320n were bricked (un usable) while updating their firmwares.
Used this serial - usb converter to debug and repair. It worked flawlessly.
Wish they had provided the driver along with it as well. Since it does not, you would have to download it yourself.
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Gio-T
5.0 out of 5 stars Jeder braucht ein USB zu TTL Kabel
Reviewed in Germany on 19 November 2013
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Habe das Kabel hauptsächlich für die Verwendung mit einem RasPi, aber funktioniert auch prima mit anderen Geräten.
Gute Verarbeitung und funktioniert wie erwartet unter OS X (mit PL2303HX.A Treibern) und Linux. Wer immer noch auf Windows ist, ist selber schuld.

Die Kabel sind:
- rot: Power
- schwarz: GND
- weiß: RX zum USB
- grün: TX vom USB

Das rote Kabel überträgt auch die 5V mit 500 mA vom USB Port und die RX/TX Anschlüsse laufen auf 3.3 V (geeignet für die verbreiteten 3.3V Boards).

Am RasPi (Modell B) schließt man das Kabel folgendermaßen an:
An den GPIO Pins, die auf der Außenseite des Raspberry Pi liegen angefangen (obere linke Ecke, außen, zwischen SD Karte und RCA/Cinch Video Buchse), von links nach rechts.
1. Pin:rot - 2. Pin: leer - 3. Pin: schwarz - 4. Pin: weiß - 5. Pin: grün
Wichtig: Wenn Euer Pi schon von einem Netzteil gespeist wird, solltet Ihr den roten Anschluss von diesem Kabel unangeschlossen lassen.
Nachdem man die PL2303HX.A Treiber unter OS X installiert hat, kann man sich mit 115200 Baud mit dem Pi verbinden indem man
"screen /dev/cu.PL2303-<TAB> 115200" eintippt (nach "screen /dev/cu.PL2303" drückt Ihr <TAB>, um das richtige Gerät auszuwählen, z.B. "screen /dev/cu.PL2303-00001234 115200").

Viel Spaß!

Dieses Produkt ist ungeeignet für Arduino (Menta, Boarduino, usw.), da der DTS/RTS Anschluss hier fehlt. Hierfür wird ein FTDI Kabel benötigt.
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Kiran Kumar
3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't the box that is shown in the image.
Reviewed in India on 8 January 2018
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I didn't get this Product with the Box that is as shown in the image. I ordered 2 products and was charged differently but both the products are same and received in single package with no difference b/w them.
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