[sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question

[Ian Fritz]

Grant --

You've already gotten some good ideas.  What I have used is the pins and 
sockets that you insert into Molex connectors.  Solder the wires to the 
pins/sockets and put some small diam heat shrink over them.  I've mostly 
used them floating (mechanically),  but you could epoxy the pins or sockets 
into holes in a PC board or other piece of plastic for a fixed arrangement.

   Ian

At 10:36 PM 4/15/2003, Grant Richter wrote:
>Not dissing bananas, but they do cost at least a quarter apiece.
>
>Has anybody got an idea for a really cheap connector?
>
>Like for a circuit where 5 banana connectors cost more than the circuit
>underneath?
>
>I don't think the springs like they use on the Radio Shack experimenters
>kits would work.
>
>I sort of have an idea, but only if I can figure out a really inexpensive
>connector. Like maybe a PC mount socket lined with wire brush that you could
>just shove one or more solid wires into for patch cords?
>
>The circuit is absurdly simple, but produces mathematically complex results.
>Possible useful as an electronic music module, but it couldn't be
>manufactured unless the connector price was like a nickel each or less.
>
>Any brainstorms appreciated!