[sdiy] Substitute for pin matrixes?

[cheater cheater]

No, the IDC socket is female, into which the standoff leg goes, and
that standoff leg turns into another female connector.

D.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:18, karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se> wrote:
> 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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