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# Industrial USB to RS485 Converter

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** WS-17286 · **Brand:** [Waveshare](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/waveshare-in-australia)
**Page:** https://core-electronics.com.au/industrial-usb-to-rs485-converter.html ([markdown](https://core-electronics.com.au/industrial-usb-to-rs485-converter.html.md))

This is an industrial USB to RS485 converter with original FT232RL and SP485EEN inside. It features embedded protection circuits such as lightning-proof, resettable fuse, ESD protection, and TVS diode, etc. It's pretty small in size.

## Pricing

- **Price:** $17.90 (inc GST) — $16.27 AUD, exc GST
- **Quantity discounts:** 10+ $15.62 (exc GST) · 25+ $15.14 (exc GST)

## Availability & dispatch

- In stock, ships same business day if ordered before 2PM (Australia/Sydney). Delivered by Tue, 11th of Aug.
- We can dispatch 18 today, and up to 300 more in 12–19 days.

## Description

This is an industrial USB to RS485 converter with original FT232RL and SP485EEN inside. It features embedded protection circuits such as lightning-proof, resettable fuse, ESD protection, and TVS diode, etc. It's pretty small in size.

The USB TO RS485 is very easy to use, allows automatic transceiving. Due to its fast communication, stability, reliability, and safety, it is an ideal choice for industrial control equipments and/or applications with high communication requirement.

## Specifications

- Product type: industrial converter
- Baudrate: 300-921600bps
- Host port: USB
- Device port: RS485
- USB: 
    - Operating voltage: 5V
    - Connector: USB-A
    - Protection: 200mA self-recovery fuse, ESD protection
    - Transmission distance: about 5m
- RS485: 
    - Connector: screw terminal
    - Pins: A+, B-, GND
    - Direction control: hardware automatic control
    - Protection: 600W lightning-proof and surge-suppress, 15KV ESD protection (**onboard 120R balancing resistor**)
    - Transmission distance: about 1200m (low rate)
    - Transmission mode: point-to-multipoints (up to 32 nodes, it is recommended to use repeaters for 16 nodes or more)
- LED indicators: 
    - PWR: red power indicator, light up when there is USB connection and voltage is detected
    - TXD: red TX indicator, light up when the USB port sends data
    - RXD: red RX indicator, light up when the device ports send data back
- Operating environment: 
    - Temperature: -15℃ ~ 70℃
    - Humidity: 5%RH ~ 95%RH
- Operating system: Mac, Linux, Android, WinCE, Windows 11 / 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 / XP
 
## Dimensions

![Dimensions](https://core-electronics.com.au/media/wysiwyg/product_info/ce07325-dimensions.jpg)

## Resources

- Wiki
 
## Shipping List

- 1 x USB TO RS485
- 1 x USB-A male to female cable
- 1 x Screwdriver

## Images

- [Product image 1](https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/c/e/ce07325-1.jpg)

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