AW: MOTM Jack-a-mania

[Entropy Struct]

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 media at mail1.nai.net wrote:
> Secondly, it is very hard to find high quality 1/8" cables.  With 1/4" you
> can buy cables in almolst any price range and configuration.  If you want
> foil shielded cables with miniature plugs you have to build them yourself
> or get them  made to order (which is more expensive than buying 1/4" off
> the rack).

I find 1/8" jacks to be (relatively) unreliable: jiggling and cussing to 
get the jacks to work is involved in some cases. 

> The trouble with bannana and miniature phone jacks is that you need
> adapters for the rest of the world.  I'm sure many people out there have
> another modular or semi-modular (like an MS-20 or EML-100) that uses 1/4"
> jacks.

And also I've found that the holes for 1/4" and banana jacks (and pots, 
incidentally) are so close in size that you can substitute one for the
other if you think ahead. Ideally this would be nice, since i would want
to put banana jacks into mine if I got one. My main reason for using them
is stackability: being able to stack plugs saves front panel space in many
cases, and there's little chance of a bad connection. The downside is that
they're unshielded... but this has all been covered before. 

I think the difference in size between the pots I use and banana jacks is
about 2mm or so, with the pots being slightly larger. 1/4" jacks fit right
in banana jack holes. (this is of course just personal experience with the
last bunch of parts I got from Mouser.)

> Would these modules also work with a +-15V supply??

Couldn't you just step it down easily enough? 

Andrew