Has anyone used the 6 pin Molex connector from the MobileLink LTE dongle?

[SRFurst]

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When I purchased my generator (22kW air cooled) it came with a year of LTE monitoring. The cellular dongle attaches via a 5 wire cable connected to a six-pin Molex connector. Two of the wires (red and black) are connected to the generator battery and two (a white and a black) originate from the 8-pin connector on the generator controller. The fifth (green) doesn't seem to do anything.

I assume the white/black pair are the RS-232 Rx/Tx signals. This cable seems pretty convenient -- has anyone tried to use it?

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[skipfire]

I assume you are asking about cutting the end of and splicing onto it to make your own cable which as 2 areas to consider, power and data.

Looking at the data part, as long as it is using RS232 (which I believe the cellular does but you can post a picture of the plug to be sure) then it should work, but of course you are damaging MobileLink device. I would suggest just buying the cheap short 8-pin cable on Amazon (only $7) rather than splicing off the MobileLink 6-pin.

As for power, you would need to convert the 12v power to 5v and/or 3v3 for the TTL and Pi but the better options here are going to attach to the battery terminals not to the Molex cable.

[rsockanc]

It can work. I had the wifi add-on box that was a joke in terms of functionality so I used the Molex it came with by cutting it off and splicing in some Viper clamps then running the serial connection over cat5 to a RJ45 to USB convertor so my PI is sitting inside the house on its own UPS.