I bought this one first for $5.99 on eBay.
I never could get it to work - It would recognize my chips, and could read from the chips, but always failed on writes. Oh well - worth a try for 5.99!
Much more expensive ($56.10 with shipping)
But it actually WORKS :)
I got it here.
Close up of the PICKit 2 PIC Programmer.
Close up of the socket board.
JP6 must be installed to program PIC chips (It is.)
The 16F688 PIC's go in the UPPER RIGHT socket.
Pin 1 faces left, and gets inserted all the way to the left side of the socket.
The Power LED comes on steady when it is connected to USB.
The Target LED comes on steady when it is selected as the target device in MPLabs V.8
The Busy LED flashes when it's in use programming your chips. (About 1 second)
I have 5 of these as backups to the Moxa board. (4 and a spare)
I got these here.
I have 9 of these these for the Moxa board or the USB to RS-232 converters. (8 and a spare, or 4 and 5 spares :) )
I got these here.
PCI 8 Port Serial Card.
I got this here.
Some DB-9 to RJ-45 converters I got off e-Bay.
I was going to use the screw terminals that came with the 232 - 485 converters, but the wire is so small it seemed to be just asking for trouble.
I ended up using these and it's MUCH cleaner and less prone to error. It also allowed me to NOT cut the ends off the patch cables, so I can swap them out as needed, and not have them be so custom...
After pinning them out for RS-485. (How cool was it that the pins that I needed to use happened to have RED and GREEN wires on them!)
End result. I cross tied them with zip ties because they both had screws on them, so they would not fit together.
A straight DB-9 to RS-232 cable made for board testing.
A few of the ferrite beads that will go on all the data lines.