[sdiy] Substitute for pin matrixes?

[karl dalen]

cheater cheater <cheater00 at gmail.com>
> Here's how you can do it: take two IDE cables, the
> connectors are
> normal row header connectors. take a standoff header - the
> one that > has a pin that solders to a PCB, and a female socket on the
> end - much  like an IC socket but only one pin. Solder a wire to the
> pin. Solder > another on the other end of the wire. Now you have a simple
> patch > cable. They can be stacked. 

How can that be stacked? Once the female mates male that pin is occupied!
Only way is to have more males?

>You can solder a resistor
> inline on the
> wire. You're probably not going to get a cheaper way of
> doing this
> with resistors in the patch. The IDE cable will probably
> die at some  point but who cares - they are cheap enough

Forget IDC cables, its more reliable to use upside down IDC
sockets with resistors directly.

KD


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