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[Achilles]

These are $45 shipped?

expecting final parts to arrive for another batch today or tomorrow, other parts i've ordered at the same time have shown up in the last two days.

[RobertISaar]

correct, for anywhere in the US, expect international shipments to be a little more.

i just got the mail, and while i have a bunch of packages in-hand, none are what i need at the moment.

[mytmouz]

ARRGHH!!! lol, When you get some together, I want whatever it is I need...

[EagleMark]

China is not known for good shipping...

[RobertISaar]

well, i got the first 5 ALDL ends here finally.... and the others will probably be a day or two behind.

unfortunately, i have the wrong ones. i was led to believe that they were the units i'm used to using... turns out they're not. they're about a foot longer(good), but the wired pins aren't correct... A, B and M are present, but E is not(in place of it, G), so while they would work just fine with any 8192 baud application, to work with 160 baud the ALDL connector on the vehicle would need repinned(the vehicle-side E pin would need to be moved to M). if i were to build the cable as-is and use G in place of the E pin and the G pin on the vehicle-side connector were populated, a dead cable is a certainly, since to my knowledge, G was only ever used to provide an alternate way of powering the fuel pump...

so, now i don't know what to do. i'm not going to force anybody to use it if they don't want it, but now it's going to take even longer to get the correct parts in.

[sherlock9c1]

Just sell them as 8192-specific. I know the LT1 DIY tuner community would love to move away from DB9 serial ports. I just got my little Uber Easy setup working in a benchtop configuration the other day and it is wonderful. Now I need to put it in a box or something!

[RobertISaar]

and i wouldn't mind selling them as such.... but i don't think there are too many people wanting to be limited out of 160 baud. my personal cable, which i've been using since sometime in 2009, doesn't have 160 baud capabilities, i assumed i wouldn't need it and i've been correct so far.