[sdiy] Synsonic drums/beginner ribbon cabling

[Happy Harry]

Hi Alex (and interested third parties...)

Stupid questions are the ones you didn't ask until it
was too LATE !!!

Yes, a ribbon cable is a bunch of wires glued together.

What you can do with it depends on the type of signals.
They are not good for very much power (like supply voltage)
unless you parallel a few wires.

Wires that run next to each other can crosstalk (one signal
couples to the other one). Placing ground wires inbetween these
signals helps a lot.

For really high quality audio, low levels, or high impedance
circuits ribbon cable may not be a good idea.

You have to try it and see if it works well.

H^) harry


>From: Alex Dickey <Alex at centricitysoftware.com>
>To: "'synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl'" <synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
>Subject: RE: [sdiy] Synsonic drums/beginner ribbon cabling
>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:05:08 -0800
>
>
> > I added a separate box connected by ribbon cable to change
> > the sounds.
>
>so i've got another very beginner question about this.  one of the
>"companies" who does 606 mods uses a ribbon cable to go to an external box.
>is using ribbon cables as simple as "these are a bunch of wires that are 
>all
>glued together"?  can i route anything over a ribbon cable, simply by
>connecting to the connector pins on both end jacks?
>
>apologies if this is really stupid...
>
>alex

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