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Armorview PL2303HX USB to TTL to UART COM Cable Module Converter

3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
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Brand roboCraze
Connector Type Usb
Cable Type USB
Color White
Connector Gender Male-to-Female

About this item

  • Cable length: 1 meter
  • Line sequence defined:Red +5V, Black GND, Green TXD, White RXD,
  • Pack of 1 USB To TTL Converter
  • Works with Win10,need manual install driver
  • You can contact our service email to get the driver

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3.8 out of 5 stars
3.8 out of 5
309 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the performance and value of the electronic adapter. For example, they mention it works perfectly, is great value for the money, and a great troubleshooting tool. That said, some complain about the compatibility and counterfeit issues. Opinions are mixed on quality and ease of use.

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102 customers mention79 positive23 negative

Customers like the performance of the adapter. They say it works perfectly, has no drivers needed, and works exactly as intended. Some customers also mention that the adaptor works with Windows 10 but you need to find older drivers and manually install them. Overall, most are satisfied with the performance and functionality of the product.

"...I haven't tried it on a 3.3V Arduino, but it does work very nicely on the 5V boards -- provided you do one little trick......" Read more

"...Giving 4 stars - product works fine and quality meets price. Wish I knew it wasn't compatible with Windows 8, but glad I have work around." Read more

"Overall, this is a GOOD product. It works nicely with standard Windows 7 drivers...." Read more

"...'ll still see mostly clear output for about 20 seconds before it stops working...." Read more

14 customers mention14 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the value of the electronic cable. They mention it's a great troubleshooting tool with good pricing. Some say the quality meets the price.

"...Giving 4 stars - product works fine and quality meets price. Wish I knew it wasn't compatible with Windows 8, but glad I have work around." Read more

"...I love these things and it's fantastic that they are available at such a low price...." Read more

"My take...For the price it is a good deal...." Read more

"...Great tool for the money." Read more

4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the speed of the electronic cable. They mention that it works well, is inexpensive, and arrived faster than expected. Some customers also say that it connects fine at 115200 baud speed.

"...Windows 7, no drivers needed for me, used putty and connected fine at 115200 baud speed...." Read more

"...It was also very inexpensive and arrived faster than I had expected." Read more

"Arrived quickly, works as expected. What you see here is what you get." Read more

"fast and works" Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers find the connectivity of the electronic cable to be great. They say it's useful for serial communication, and powering TTL circuits. Some mention that it hasn't burned up like other cheap serial logic cables.

"Powers and communicates with FPGA project board, hasn't burned up like the other cheap serial logic cable I bought...." Read more

"...I can't buy enough of them.They're incredibly useful for serial communication." Read more

"Good for powering TTL circuits, fair at communicating with Arduino Pro..." Read more

24 customers mention10 positive14 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the electronic cable. Some mention that it has a quality build, the main cable is a solid feeling, and is effective. However, others say that the build quality overall is horrible, the female header crimping quality is very poor, and the metal male plug is poorly made.

"...to Serial (TTL) Module/Adapter units and both of them are now showing framing errors using their TX/RX jumper...." Read more

"...It comes with an adequate length of cable for my purposes, though a USB cable extender may come in handy...." Read more

"...Unfortunately the connection wires are quite flimsy, the plastic connector tore off after about a weeks of use, luckily it was an easy fix." Read more

"...Overall durability is good, the main cable is a solid feeling 28AWG line and it has a clean heat shrink tubing seal where the female pin connectors..." Read more

10 customers mention5 positive5 negative

Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the electronic cable. Some mention it's simple and easy to use, while others say it doesn't offer any documentation or instructions.

"Works as expected. No instruction, nothing. The only helpful information is printed on the box telling me which pin is which. Simple enough." Read more

"...The cable works exactly as intended, but doesn't offer any documentation; just the serial cable in a small bag. Annoying...." Read more

"This is a simple FTDI and gets the job done. I'm on Linux (Gentoo), and the module name is pl2303 in case you need to compile it in or as a module...." Read more

"...with a spec sheet that labels the voltages and leads -1 star for lack or data, +4 stars for the design as it looks more like just a usb cable and..." Read more

14 customers mention4 positive10 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the compatibility of the cable. They mention that it is not compatible with Windows 8, that the HXA chip model is not supported by Prolific for Windows 8, and that it does not recognize three operating systems. They also say that it works fine in Linux but requires some driver workarounds in Windows 8.

"...research, I discovered that the HXA chip model is not supported by Prolific for Windows 8, and that is what is in this cable...." Read more

"...in this converter-cable is the A revision (HX Rev A) and is incompatible with Windows 8 (yellow triangle in device mgr w/error "10")..." Read more

"This device installed automatically in Windows 7 Professional and came right up and worked...." Read more

"NOT compatible with Windows 8. Tried numerous workarounds to get it to work in Win 8 and no go. Installed on Win 7 system and it works fine...." Read more

4 customers mention0 positive4 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the counterfeit. They mention that it uses a Chinese counterfeit Prolific chip clone, and that the Prolificator drivers do not work with it.

"...work straight away in Windows (any version) then it is a counterfeit Chinese knockoffs according to Prolific..." Read more

"Apparently these are commonly faked. The Chip is a Chinese knockoff and isn't compatible with the legit drivers or Windows 8/8.1/10 and won't work..." Read more

"Just like others have mentioned, this converter uses a Chinese counterfeit Prolific chip clone, Prolific drivers will not start in Windows giving..." Read more

"Piece of crap. Bootleg device wrong chip so it does not work." Read more

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Ok I had written a good review but now I have to edit it. It gets so hot and stops working. Not only I have burned my hand, the plastic on the cable has actually melted.
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Donna W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Works for FTDI programming of Arduinos too...
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2015
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This little cable works quite well. At first I didn't realize that it was one pin short of being a proper FTDI cable for programming devices like Arduino boards (or even the Raspberry Pi according to one reviewer). I haven't tried it on a 3.3V Arduino, but it does work very nicely on the 5V boards -- provided you do one little trick...

Since it doesn't have the DTR (only a transmit and receive -- Tx and Rx), it can't reset the Arduino circuit for you to put it in the bootloader. That's what the DTR signal is used for during FTDI programming of those devices. However, all you have to do is when you click 'upload' (if building from the Arduino IDE) or run the Makefile (if running from the command-line or other IDE as I do on Linux), is press the Reset button on your Arduino board manually when avrdude launches. Works like a charm.

Though you do have to get the baud rate correct -- I messed that up the first time when running manually from a makefile on Linux. The ProMini boards need 57600 whereas the Uno is 115200. That took me a bit to figure out. Though if you are running from the Arduino IDE, just select the correct board in the menu and you are set...

The other thing is to get the pinout correct. First time out, I got the Tx and Rx backwards too... Here's the pinout for connecting to the Arduino boards:

Red = +5V VCC (only needed if you aren't powering your board with its own supply)
Gnd = Gnd
White = Connect to the TXO pin of the Arduino (PD1)
Green = Connect to the RXI pin of the Arduino (PD0)

I've only tried this cable on Linux. There it just works with nothing special. Though it came up as device /dev/ttyUSB instead of /dev/ttyAMC0, so be sure you select the correct device on the menus or enter the correct one on the command-line. I think for Mac you need an FTDI driver installed -- as I know I had to do that on my MacMini once when talking to the USB port of an Uno board (the generic FTDI drivers should work for it), but I haven't specifically tested this cable there. And I haven't tried it at all on Windoze... Presumably it works there too.

Overall, I like this cable and am well pleased with it.
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AdamC
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a PL-2303 XA / HXA chip
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2013
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I ordered this cable to be used with a Raspberry Pi connected to a Windows 8 computer (Microsoft Surface Pro). The cable was detected just fine by Windows 8, but the device would not start. After some research, I discovered that the HXA chip model is not supported by Prolific for Windows 8, and that is what is in this cable. So warning: if you want to use Windows 8, then this is not the cable for you. Perhaps more research before I purchased this I could have figured that out, but it isn't made very clear.

Regardless, this cable works just fine with Windows 7, and I was able to implement a workaround on Windows 8 to get it to work. The workaround is to use the Prolific 1.5.0 drivers (no longer available on Prolific's website, and not supported on Windows 8). You also have to turn off the automatic update of windows drivers, which is not recommended. So, although this workaround works, it isn't optimal and is disappointing.

Giving 4 stars - product works fine and quality meets price. Wish I knew it wasn't compatible with Windows 8, but glad I have work around.
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Matt
5.0 out of 5 stars Works as expected
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2013
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Connected it up to a "bricked" router and reloaded the firmware. My only word of advice to anyone using this is that apparently if you mix up the transmit and receive lines, you'll still see mostly clear output for about 20 seconds before it stops working. I even had my whole PC lock up a couple of times after leaving it in this state for too long. I wasn't able to enter any kind of input and finally swapped the lines to see everything working perfectly. But boy was I confused/frustrated that first day.
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Andrew
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor quality control
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2013
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Overall, this is a GOOD product. It works nicely with standard Windows 7 drivers. I'm giving it a 1-star because of poorly attached wires at the pin-connector end - wire sleeve was not crimped to relieve stress. This caused the wire to eventually twist off. It was easily repaired by soldering.
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Sam
3.0 out of 5 stars Missing URL to download driver , but works well
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2017
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I had no problems with the device, but I rated it lower since I didn't know where to get the driver. Once I plugged the cord in my laptop and googled the name that came up as the USB name then I found the driver to download. I wish the box would have just had a URL.
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Allen Crawford
5.0 out of 5 stars It works for unbricking FTA satellite receivers!
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2015
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I received this in about a month after ordering as it comes from China. The comments made about chipset fraud is
patently false. I conducted a hardware check and it checks out as genuine. After much research, I was able to successfully
unbrick a Manhattan RS-1933 FTA satellite receiver. The correct software is available online but you must search real closely
for it. The best place to search for the software would be where they either sell it or manufacture it. It took a little soldering
to get the pins in the TTL socket but once you have a solid understanding of what you must do to reflash the device, you will
have a full working receiver again. Thanks to Amazon for making this device available to us who are always learning.
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FRP_LLC
2.0 out of 5 stars Bought 2, 1 has failed and hoping other one hangs in there
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2014
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I have been using the adapter to capture some TTL data for a couple of weeks, when all of a sudden it started throwing framing errors. I put the TX and RX in loopback and the RX received data was corrupted. I'm using LabVIEW 2012 and Windows 7, so to eliminate it wasn't a LabVIEW problem I downloaded and tested it with PuTTY and the RX data showed up corrupted on it's screen as well. I went to the Prolific website and downloaded the latest USB-to-serial drivers, but the errors persisted. I bought 2 units, but only 1 shows framing errors. Interestingly, I bought 2 of the NooElec PL2303 USB to Serial (TTL) Module/Adapter units and both of them are now showing framing errors using their TX/RX jumper. I was going to blame a recent Windows update, but with 1 working adapter that doesn't seem a likely culprit. I tried to test it out on my other machine, but its Windows 8 and I have not found a compatible driver set yet. This is definitely a frustrating set back, so I may be forced to try another USB-Serial solution.
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Lila
5.0 out of 5 stars economico ma funziona
Reviewed in Italy on December 24, 2015
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Preso per salvare un piccolo router wifi che si era brickato durante un aggiornamento ufficiale, ha fatto egregiamente il suo lavoro per una cifra irrisoria, anche se ovviamente serve un po' di pratica e di verifica dei pin
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Pratik
5.0 out of 5 stars Works perfectly
Reviewed in India on October 21, 2014
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I used it to unbrick my routers.
My tplink 3420 and linksys wr320n were bricked (un usable) while updating their firmwares.
Used this serial - usb converter to debug and repair. It worked flawlessly.
Wish they had provided the driver along with it as well. Since it does not, you would have to download it yourself.
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Gio-T
5.0 out of 5 stars Jeder braucht ein USB zu TTL Kabel
Reviewed in Germany on November 19, 2013
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Habe das Kabel hauptsächlich für die Verwendung mit einem RasPi, aber funktioniert auch prima mit anderen Geräten.
Gute Verarbeitung und funktioniert wie erwartet unter OS X (mit PL2303HX.A Treibern) und Linux. Wer immer noch auf Windows ist, ist selber schuld.

Die Kabel sind:
- rot: Power
- schwarz: GND
- weiß: RX zum USB
- grün: TX vom USB

Das rote Kabel überträgt auch die 5V mit 500 mA vom USB Port und die RX/TX Anschlüsse laufen auf 3.3 V (geeignet für die verbreiteten 3.3V Boards).

Am RasPi (Modell B) schließt man das Kabel folgendermaßen an:
An den GPIO Pins, die auf der Außenseite des Raspberry Pi liegen angefangen (obere linke Ecke, außen, zwischen SD Karte und RCA/Cinch Video Buchse), von links nach rechts.
1. Pin:rot - 2. Pin: leer - 3. Pin: schwarz - 4. Pin: weiß - 5. Pin: grün
Wichtig: Wenn Euer Pi schon von einem Netzteil gespeist wird, solltet Ihr den roten Anschluss von diesem Kabel unangeschlossen lassen.
Nachdem man die PL2303HX.A Treiber unter OS X installiert hat, kann man sich mit 115200 Baud mit dem Pi verbinden indem man
"screen /dev/cu.PL2303-<TAB> 115200" eintippt (nach "screen /dev/cu.PL2303" drückt Ihr <TAB>, um das richtige Gerät auszuwählen, z.B. "screen /dev/cu.PL2303-00001234 115200").

Viel Spaß!

Dieses Produkt ist ungeeignet für Arduino (Menta, Boarduino, usw.), da der DTS/RTS Anschluss hier fehlt. Hierfür wird ein FTDI Kabel benötigt.
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G. Hewson
5.0 out of 5 stars Works fine with Raspberry Pi
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2013
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It works fine with the Raspberry Pi, but I had a little trouble at first. Unlike other reviewers, I had to swap the green and white leads (RX and TX) compared to the Adafruit lead.

Also, I couldn't get the converter to work initially with a USB extension lead. I was getting errors logged in /var/log/ saying "device descriptor read/64, error -71" and "unable to enumerate USB device", though it was OK plugging the converter directly into the USB socket. I even bought a new USB extension lead: no difference. I don't know if the converter is fussy, or my computer, but plugging the extension into a different socket (actually, the hub on my monitor) fixed the problem.
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Kiran Kumar
3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't the box that is shown in the image.
Reviewed in India on January 8, 2018
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I didn't get this Product with the Box that is as shown in the image. I ordered 2 products and was charged differently but both the products are same and received in single package with no difference b/w them.
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