Connectors are not part of RS-485 standard.
As the old joke has it, standards are so good everyone should have their own:
Here are several conflicting specifications for half-duplex RS-485 on D-shell 9-pin connectors:
- Modbus uses pins 5 and 9 and 1. Standard, section 3.5
- Digi uses 3 and 9 and 5. Ref
- Virtual Serial Port uses 3 and 7 and shell. Ref, fig 3.9
If there's something common in your industry, use that. Otherwise I'd suggest Modbus, because "RS-485 on DE-9 per Modbus standard" is easy to say, easy to check, and buy ready-made cables for.
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Connectors are not part of RS-485 standard.
As the old joke has it, standards are so good everyone should have their own:
Here are several conflicting specifications for half-duplex RS-485 on D-shell 9-pin connectors:
- Modbus uses pins 5 and 9 and 1. Standard, section 3.5
- Digi uses 3 and 9 and 5. Ref
- Virtual Serial Port uses 3 and 7 and shell. Ref, fig 3.9
If there's something common in your industry, use that. Otherwise I'd suggest Modbus, because "RS-485 on DE-9 per Modbus standard" is easy to say, easy to check, and buy ready-made cables for.
No, because the RS-485 standard itself does not define any connector or any pinout, among many other things that the standard does not define.
Also a DB9 connector does not exist, but I will assume you mean DE9 connector.
However, many other standards that build on top of the RS-485 standard do define a connector and a pinout. So this means there can be many different pinouts used by many different standards on DE9 connector.
Just pick a pinout that is commonly used, standard or non-standard.
Many other differential buses that don't use RS-485 but still have rather compatible cabling and might use a DE9 connector in practice do exist.