Originally Posted by cjack:
I just checked the bad Base and pin 2, recv data is very loaded down...barely a volt or so of transition. Pin 3, send data is fine. So the receive input of the Base is shorted somehow. I take it this is a Uart chip of some kind. Wonder how hard it would be to find and replace. Surface mount no doubt...
Are you measuring this with a multimeter to the unconnected serial port pins on the Base, or with a 'scope monitoring an active connection between the Base and another serial device (like your USB serial adapter)?