Has anyone been successful with the Serial1 port at other than 9600?

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I’m trying to interface to an RFID card from Parallax (TTL serial at 2400 baud). I’m reading strange data and about 4 times more than I would expect. Strangely changing the baud rate in the Serial1.begin(2400) doesn’t change the received data at all. Any ideas?

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I have successfully tested up to 115200, but nothing below 9600. :-/

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I wrote a loop back test and set the port to 2400 and it passes, so whatever it is doing it consistent.

Let me play with it a bit more and I will try to figure something out.

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OK, I tried a few things:

  • I set my serial LCD display for 2400 baud and wrote to it. This worked fine.
  • I set my serial LCD back to 9600 baud while continuing to write it 2400 baud and it displayed garbage.
  • I wrote 1024 chars out the serial port and read them back in, timing it with a stop watch and the D7 LED. With the buffering and some code overhead, the overall rate should be close to but a little under 2400 baud or 240 chars per second (1 start, 8 data, 1 stop). I got 1024 chars in 4.68 to 4.78 seconds over several runs for a rate of 2188 to 2142 baud, so just about what I expected.

So I am not seeing big problems.

So looking at the doc for the Parallax RFID reader, it has a output enable pin that you drive low to enable the output. Hope that’s OK. The doc also mentions that noise can be a problem and that you should get two good readings before deciding you have detected a card.

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Thanks guys. i must be doing something stupid. time to pull out the oscilloscope. I appreciate the good work.

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I just had a few minutes in the lab but noticed there is a LARGE (3v pp) noise signal on the core’s Vin relative to Gnd when i run it from my HP laptop’s USB. Tomorrow I’ll try to isolate the source (laptop, core or RFID board), If someone has a scope handy, I’d appreciate a second opinion on the quality of the core’s Vcc.