Victron VE Direct DIY Cable

If you broke or lost the VE.Direct cable for your Victron device, you can make your own. The original cable is a RS232/Serial-to-USB converter. This means that any device that appears as an COM/serial device in the operating system will work for this purpose.

Connection

Materials

This requires the following parts:

• Adafruit FTDI 5V 1m adapter cable
• JST-PH 2.00mm pitch 4-pin with wires

Or build one from adapters, cable and connector:

• Sparkfun FTDI 5V RS232 Mini-USB adapter
• JST-PH 2.00mm pitch 4-pin connector
• 4 Wire cable 1m

Software

For Windows, download the USB drivers and install VConnect:

• Victron software downloads

For Mac, just download and install VConnect:

• Victron software downloads

Future

The next project is to try to use a Bluetooth LE serial adapter and try to make it work like a VE.Direct Bluetooth smart dongle.