[sdiy] Tasty Crap in small packets

[Michael Ruberto]

hey check these out.

http://www.alliedelec.com/catalog/catalogpages/2002/336.pdf?Catalog=2002&PageNum=336

the "Rib-Loc" type have a very low panel consumption and are ribbed for your 
pleasure. I use standard size Tip jacks on all my synths and I can vouch for 
their reliability, certainly superior to junky minijacks :-0<#$%&

test probes fit em too - very handy!
~M

>From: "Batz Goodfortune" <batzmanx at all-electric.com>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: [sdiy] Tasty Crap in small packets
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:10:01 +0930
>
>Y-ellow all.
>         Here's a bit of a feasibility study. Room is a premium here. I 
>like building things ultra small therefore. All my previous modular bits 
>and piece,  -which don't amount to much any more.- have no space left in 
>here these days, yet I need some fairly custom modules. All of which could 
>be built on some tiny plug-in cards. Except for the front panel issues.
>
>I can solve that largely by using some rather tiny and cute, finger 
>adjusting trim pots by bourns which don't look too bad on a front panel. 
>(There are obviously other solutions here as well) However, when you're 
>module front panel measures about 1" by 4", what 'n' Shelly's Frankenstein 
>could you use for sockets? Where even mini-jacks are too big. (not to 
>mention unrealizable)
>
>At this scale, banana sockets look like doughnuts. Including the cop 
>munching on the other end. Other tiny solutions are either humungously 
>expensive or just too damn cumbersome. Apart from the expense, a Pin-board 
>matrix is not a good idea in a constantly evolving system. But something 
>the size of an individual pin/socket, would be about the order of 
>magnitude. Only with a cable on the end.
>
>At this point this is purely academic but I found a cage system that I was 
>going to deploy for something more mundane till I realized it would be 
>ideal for a sub-miniature stack of modules. But there's no point in even 
>ear-marking the system if I can't connect it.
>
>Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Be absolutely Icebox.
>
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