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Infrared adapter hack
I would like some help in hacking an IR printer adapter made for the HP 350c
printer. This is a tiny pc board with a minimum of components connected via 8 wires to a parallel printer connector. I would like to put this to use as a serial port to IRDA device if possible. Yes, I know there are probably simpler ways, but this is a very tiny board, and I'd like to learn from it anyway. This board is different from others I have torn into. It has an IRDA transmitter/receiver encoder/decoder similar to but a bit smaller than the HSDL7001 but only has the numbers R800 and 016A on the back. This is a through hole, 9 staggered pin device. This adapter was sold by HP so is this R800 an HP part? Wish I had a data sheet! In addition there is a small crystal with the frequency 3.68 mhz but no processor......but does have 3 transistors, 2 resistors, and 2 capacitors (all surface mount). I think this is the frequency specified for 16xclk. On the connector side, the only used pins a 18 +5v 19 gnd 10 low-ack 1 low data strobe 13 high 12 high-paper end 19 gnd 19-31-36 (low) (gnd) are all conncted 11-16 connected (gnd) The presence of the crystal leads me to believe that the baud rate is taken care of already, on-board. So how do I go about finding where the rx and tx connections should be. Or is this even possible? The circuit is obviosly getting it's power (5v) from the printer. (Incidently, there is a similar adapter for the HP 450c that uses a HSDL 1000 encode/decode, NO crystal or processor, only a couple transistors and a few passives, but uses only 5 wires from the printer port connector.) curious! Thanks Jim |
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