[sdiy] a cable with 50+ pin connectors ?

[harrybissell at prodigy.net]

Why not two DB-25 connectors... use one male and one female socket
at each end... then you can't reverse them.

Cheap and VERY available

H^) harry

--------Original Message--------  

From: jhaible at debitel.net
To: "Ingo Debus" <debus at cityweb.de>, <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: May 5 2003 21:05
Subject: Re: [sdiy] a cable with 50+ pin connectors ?

>
>> Michael Zacherl wrote:
>> > Why no ribbon cable? Too vulnerable?
>Yes. And not looking good.
>The ideal sulution would be a a connector that uses ribbon cable
>*inside* the enclosure (connecting to a 50pin IDC on the other
>end), but the cable *outside* the enclosure should be round.
>And readily available. And unexpensive. (;->)
>> There's "flat/round" ribbon cable available, i.e. a ribbon cable
>> squeezed into a round tubing. But this is quite stiff. You can get it
>> with shield too.
>Stiff would be another thing to avoid, I'm afraid.
>JH. (always asking these difficult questions, and never satisfied (;->) )


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Powered by Wild On Web:
Free POP Mail Access - Access your E-mail from Anywhere in the World!
http://www.wildonweb.com
|Awards|Money|Bank|Credit|Dating|Games|Jokes|Vitamins|Magazines|Diet|
|Bookstore|News|Babies|Cards|Homepages|Hobbies|...