Handset Cable

If you own old gear it will be hard to source spare parts. The contacts of the cable connecting my mount with the hand control are full of rust. Since I couldn't find any commercially available cable I put it together myself without a solder iron. The unused pins can be cut and the protrusing cables isolated with tape. Cable and connector are about US$10.

Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G
Hand Control: SynScan V3
Cable: RJ45 (8p) to RS-232C (male)
Pin assignment:


Note that the colors of the cables inside the RS-232C connector may differ by vendor.