OK, I got the SN-10B to the LX-Nano to work today.
It just was a matter of futzing around with the cables until I got it right.

I'm glad it worked out.
I actually danced around after getting it to work.

Thanks to everybody who helped with suggestions.


On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:06:58 PM UTC-4, Paul Remde wrote:
Hi Luke,



I've helped a few customers connect NanoPower cables to ILEC SN10s with good

results.



My best guess is that the SN10 is not configured correctly. Or you have the

transmit and receive wires backwards. You must connect the receive line on

one end to the transmit line on the other end. You won't damage anything if

you get them backwards. If it doesn't work - swap them at one end (not

both).



Best Regards,



Paul Remde

Cumulus Soaring, Inc.



"Luke Szczepaniak" wrote in message

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On 08/21/2012 1:54 PM, Piet Barber wrote:

So... has anybody successfully gotten the LX-Nano to be the GPS source for

the SN-10? I've made my own RJ-45 cables to connect the two, but the

SN-10 refuses to acknowledge that there's a GPS attached. My volkslogger

blew up last spring, and we've not been able to make any use of the SN-10,

outside of the speed to fly function which still works.



I feel like kind of a pioneer here, except a lot less smart.



I wired the Nano to the SN-10 with the wiring instructions on page 12 of

the Nano handbook. Set the baud rate on both ends to 19200 (also tried

4800), NMEA. No soup.



Anybody got any ideas?



I have some bad feeling that it could be because of these reasons that I

haven't yet successfully eliminated as possibilities, (ranked by most

likely to least likely):



1) I'm not actually wiring it up in the way that I think I'm wiring it up

2) there's something subtle and different in the NMEA sentence structure

between the Nano and the SN-10 that won't be fixed by wiring.

3) the SN-10 is busted somehow.

4) The USB-to-serial cable that comes with the Nano is busted somehow.





If there is anybody out there who has successfully paired these two

devices before, I'd really like to know -- that way I can eliminate

possibility #2 above.







Hi Piet, I am not familiar with either piece of hardware so the

following is just a general statement that applies when connecting any

instruments together. My best guess is that you either have the baud

rate set incorrectly (settings on both units have to match), or the

cable you made has the RX and TX pins reversed from what is needed. You

can probably find the information on how to set the baud rates as well

as the pin-outs for the cables in the manuals of each instrument.



Good Luck,

Luke Szczepaniak