I would suggest that AP package a proper,
compatible, “gender changer” with their FTDI serial/USB package.
Someone will likely need it to match even a “spare test
cable” into their CPx controller. Save everybody the hassle of sourcing this
tiny inexpensive, (soon to be rare part), along with the shipping charges from
an electronics store when ordering just one, and panic calls to AP.
In fact, from your comment about FTDI ...needing one
themselves ... to do their software testing, FTDI should have done this
for THEIR user shipments ... in the first place. Its not as though adding the
few extra pennies of expense for it, would endanger FTDI’s competitive position
– there aren’t any.
