USB to TTL Serial Cable Adapter FTDI Chipset FT232 USB Cable TTL for Arduino ESP8266 (Pack of 1pc)

I have tried many of these over the years and this one is certainly the best value.Only get FTDI ones as their drivers work the best.No issues with it falling apart for me.However I do not think there are any LEDS...

The USB plugs on the pair I bought are loose and the connection will be lost if the connector is jostled. Push the connector down and you've got a good connection, pull it up and it disconnects every time. This is the first time I've seen a cable with a loose USB plug, much less two. 10/10 would not recommend.UPDATE:After a few months of light use I disconnected the cable from my computer and the USB A plug came out of the molded strain relief! The strain relief was separating along what I originally thought was an injection molding seam, but was actually the seam between two press-fit halves. I used a small screwdriver to pry the halves apart (which was disturbingly easy) and found that the only thing that had been holding the USB connector in place was the friction between the two press-fit halves of the strain relief!I'm no expert on board-mounted male USB-A plugs, but when you install a board-mounted port on a circuit board you are supposed to solder the contacts AND attach the housing to the board. In this product the contacts were soldered but only thing holding the housing to the board was the press-fit strain relief. On a different USB to TTL board I own the housing of the male USB-A is both crimped and soldered to the board. (This board appears to be designed to have the USB-A plug attached in the same way, but it was neither crimped nor soldered.)This brings up issue #2. Two press-fit halves do not comprise an adequate strain relief. The strain relief on a cable is typically a single piece molded around the connector to prevent mechanical loads from being transferred through the connector.Finally, when I was reinstalling the USB-A plug onto the board I discovered issue #3. The circuit board is cut slightly too long for the USB-A plug to seat properly. I had to trim about 0.4mm off the end of the board before I could get the plug to seat on the board.

This works great with Arduinos & other demo boards. ttl voltage values make it safe for other ttl logic level UART devices like the HM-05, HM-06, HC-10 blue tooth, Rasp PI, other dev mini boards also. I used them to dev apps for PIC systems. Great way to get debug info from a running app on via a UART, pipe your debug info back out the port to tera term. I used these to debug blue tooth low energy controller-peripheral configurations for products I am helping design. I also use them to configure BLE modules prior to shipping. I own a handful of these guys. Never a problem.It runs stable for days with Tera Term & Putty, never an issue or lockup.These won't blue screen you on Windows 10 like some of the off brand crap used to on Windows 7.

The item arrived well packaged. And it seems it is a good quality cable. It used 28AWG wires and it is 3 feet long! which is really nice. I was able to disassemble the plug to see the chip and the circuit board inside it, And I have to say that it has a good FT232BL chipset. Although it is listed as 3.3v cable, but if you look at the circuit you can find that there is a 5v soldering points! which is nice, i.e. if you needed a 5v breakout board cable in the future, you can just solder these points together and disconnect the 3v!I used it to program an Arduino board few times, and I also used it to program an OSD for RC FPV, and it worked flawlessly. What can I say, it's a good value for the price.

I ordered this rather than the official cable to connect to get a serial connection for my RockPi 4. The lead colors turned out to be exactly the same as the official cable. Linux automatically detected the cable, and bi-directional communication worked out of the box using the minicom instructions for the official cable.It would have been helpful to have a card giving the lead assignments, but they're pretty easy to find in the product photographs. I printed the relevant photograph so I have a record for the future.

These are a great alternative to setting up an FTDI breakout on a breadboard, and are very convenient for debugging. The cable breaks out into pins which can be directly connected to your chip's UART. Great for easy debugging.

I used this for an Arduino Pro Mini. It worked fine, you just have to remember to do a manual reset between compile and download on the Arduino since DTR is not brought out on this cable. DTR would allow for an automatic reset of the Arduino during downloads.

I used this cable with a beaglebone black and some other UART compatible devices. MAC / OSX does NOT need any drivers for this to work so that is a huge bonus (compared to the competition). Also, the device will show up as "/dev/tty.usbserial-0020111A" while cheaper ones will just show as "/dev/tty.usbserial" causing name collision issues if you connect more than one. No complaints from me. Works for all my embedded needs.

Using this to add console connections to equipment with internal headers.

It works. The one issue- the wires are not marked, so it takes looking up on the original product post to know.