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proper feeding of UART.

From: Lee Adamson <>
Date: 8 Jun 99 01:01:26 MDT

Ok, I'm thinking about switching my power supply to a couple of 4 volt Wheat
open-faced wet-cells (for 8v total) and have some questions to ask before
frying my hardware.

I believe the rs232 spec says that a zero is -12 to -3 volts, nothing is -3 to
+3 volts, and one is +3 to +12 volts, right?

So, afaik, the only thing that I'm using +12 and -12 from the ISA bus is for
the serial UARTs.  Will they get mad an maybe even die if I replace the +12
with +8 from the batteries, and replace -12 with -7 via an op-amp wired as a
charge-pump thingie?  This would fall within the rs232 limits...

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