Are sockets really adapters? That seems to be a bit daft. Admittedly, if you design a good RS422/485 interface to the outside world (with diodes to trap lightning bolts, short circuit protection, etc.), you don't require quick replacement sockets... maybe.
If you are managing a lot of communications network, being able to quickly swap chips is important. Try soldering in the rain and at some god-forsake service box. You will just end up building or buying more boards and swapping out the whole board to take back to a real work bench. Another added cost.
Adapters exploit the existance of sockets to adapt something that doesn't fit the existing socket.
It is a big after-market in electronics and in part drives the issue of more and more oddball sockets and plug formats. In some cases, it is a necessary evil.
But we get stair-stepped into spending extra money. For instance, does a Raspberry Pi really need an HDMI monitor, or do the HDMI to VGA mostly enjoy a windfall from the Raspberry Pi? We are being marched along by planned obsolescence.
RS422/485 is excellent for long wire serial, but there is now a big after-market in 100 meter USB to USB cables that are far more expensive, and in some cases don't work as well. (It really is a chain of adapters going from ttl to USB to someting like RS485 and back again -- adapters on top of adapters. Ugh.
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If you are managing a lot of communications network, being able to quickly swap chips is important. Try soldering in the rain and at some god-forsake service box. You will just end up building or buying more boards and swapping out the whole board to take back to a real work bench. Another added cost.
Adapters exploit the existance of sockets to adapt something that doesn't fit the existing socket.
It is a big after-market in electronics and in part drives the issue of more and more oddball sockets and plug formats. In some cases, it is a necessary evil.
But we get stair-stepped into spending extra money. For instance, does a Raspberry Pi really need an HDMI monitor, or do the HDMI to VGA mostly enjoy a windfall from the Raspberry Pi? We are being marched along by planned obsolescence.
RS422/485 is excellent for long wire serial, but there is now a big after-market in 100 meter USB to USB cables that are far more expensive, and in some cases don't work as well. (It really is a chain of adapters going from ttl to USB to someting like RS485 and back again -- adapters on top of adapters. Ugh.