Condor and Windows 10

On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 9:43:36 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Don't waste your time buying a cable for condor.

You can build it for under $10 and there are only 3 wires to connect. The driver is the most difficult part to find and IF you build your own you will know where the driver can be found and use a generic driver.

Agreed, and here is a successful outcome. I bought this cable: http://www.adafruit.com/products/954 for $9.95 and hooked it up in just a few minutes.

It's based on a Prolific PL2303 TA chip that has a tested Win10 driver. The driver install package even has a subordinate program to see which chip is in your device. There are other USB to serial chips out there, FTDI for example, but make sure you have an authentic FTDI chip since there has been a flood of imitation ones will not work. Another important issue is that if you connecting a Vertica/Avier/Gliderguider to the computer, be sure that your USB to Serial converter is a low voltage TTL (LVTTL, 3.3 v) chip and not just Serial or just 5v TTL. The regular serial or TTL voltages can harm the flight computer. Most commercial USB to Serial cables are not made for this use nor can they be easily converted, and even the specialty cables used with Arduino and Raspberry Pi micro computers sometimes come with a configurable 3.3 vs. 5 volt option, so be sure to get the voltages right.

So, after several hours of testing, I'm happy to report that Condor under Win10 has no problems, and the new cable/driver combo works as well as the old.