[sdiy] Euro Synth Spec

[Ben Bradley]

As an "unknowledgeable" user (about Eurorack, except for what I've
read on the [hack, cough] Internet), but knowledgeable about
electronics and standard practices, I know that the red stripe on a
ribbon cable means "Pin 1" but seeing red on some part of a header
shroud makes me think "positive voltage." But then I know to double
and triple check, even to the point of tracing the power connections
to nearby chips whose pinouts I can look up.

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 5:22 PM, john slee <indigoid at oldcorollas.org> wrote:
> On 23 October 2017 at 02:48, Pete Hartman <pete.hartman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is not much harder to verify the boxed header most of the time.
>
> Andrew of NonLinearCircuits fame has come up with a nice way of making this
> visually obvious on the module side: the pin headers have red instead of
> black
> plastic around the -12V pins. So it visually — and very obviously — matches
> the red stripe on the cable.
>
> Doesn't protect against bad user or bad cables, of course.
>
> It's a shame the Eurorack thing has accumulated so much inertia. Very hard
> to
> change now...
>
> John
>
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