---------------------------------------------------------- AeroElectric-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 01/12/22: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:25 AM - Re: Reverse Engineering JPI Engine Monitor Interfaces (user9253) 2. 07:53 AM - Re: Reverse Engineering JPI Engine Monitor Interfaces (cjfortin) 3. 09:21 AM - Re: Re: Reverse Engineering JPI Engine Monitor Interfaces (Jared Yates) 4. 10:35 AM - Re: Reverse Engineering JPI Engine Monitor Interfaces (Robert L. Nuckolls, III) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:25:04 AM PST US Subject: AeroElectric-List: Re: Reverse Engineering JPI Engine Monitor Interfaces From: "user9253" Buy a USB-Serial converter. Research them to get the best chipset. eBay has converters with a terminal strip for attaching wires. Connect two wires from the DC plug to the USB-Serial converter. Nine pin D-Subs are not required. I have never actually done this. So I don't know if it will work or not. But if it works, it will only cost you $10 instead of $300. -------- Joe Gores Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=505670#505670 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 07:53:49 AM PST US Subject: AeroElectric-List: Re: Reverse Engineering JPI Engine Monitor Interfaces From: "cjfortin" If it is a standard RS232 connection, pins 2 & 3 are your transmit and receive signals. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=505671#505671 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/rs232_pinout_639.jpg ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 09:21:33 AM PST US From: Jared Yates Subject: Re: AeroElectric-List: Re: Reverse Engineering JPI Engine Monitor Interfaces Thanks Joe, I was starting to think the same thing. Seems like a lot of doing then un-doing that could be skipped, when all we're really after is a tx and an rx. On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:31 AM user9253 wrote: > > Buy a USB-Serial converter. Research them to get the best chipset. > eBay has converters with a terminal strip for attaching wires. > Connect two wires from the DC plug to the USB-Serial converter. > Nine pin D-Subs are not required. > I have never actually done this. So I don't know if it will work or not. > But if it works, it will only cost you $10 instead of $300. > > -------- > Joe Gores > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=505670#505670 > > ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 10:35:10 AM PST US From: "Robert L. Nuckolls, III" Subject: Re: AeroElectric-List: Reverse Engineering JPI Engine Monitor Interfaces At 08:36 PM 1/11/2022, you wrote: >I have purchased a plane that came with an old >JPI EDM-700 engine monitor. This is the one with >the orange and black display that shows bar >graphs for EGT, CHT, etc. It has a data logging >capability, but the interface requires their cable, which I don't have: >https://www.jpinstruments.com/shop/pc-interface-cable-for-edm-7 00-edm-800-and-edm-760/ >This looks like something that I could make out >of things I have laying around the shop, vs >spending $40 plus shipping. Does anyone have one >sitting around that they could do some >continuity testing on? If the little plug only >has two conductors, I would guess that there >must be two pins on the serial end that they are connected to. >JPI also offers a box that takes the serial from >that cable and writes to a USB drive. They >charge $200 for that box, and I'd love to see what's in one of those.=C2 >Another option is to send the unit into JPI, >where they will modify it to have a USB interface for $300. >And of course there is always the option of just >pretending like it doesn't record data, but where's the fun in that? If they only bring two conductors to the rear of your PC, it seems likely that it will be an RS232 style serial output at some format. The hard question is protocol . . . continuous stream? Multi-word records of data based on sample rate? Is there a JPI unique application for the PC? You could WAG it and build a cable that brings the center-conductor to RX pin on the RS232 port. Fire up a generic dumb terminal app and see if the PC decodes something intelligible. You may have to fiddle with data rates . . . You can but a 'scope on that output and measure the width of a 'bit' to get into the ball park. Bob . . . 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