<div dir="ltr">I have used quick connect PCB terminals to attach the PCB to a row of standard Johnson-Emerson banana jacks, either in horizontal or vertical PCB orientation. The fit is a bit tight though:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/keystone-electronics/3548/36-3548-ND/" target="_blank">https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/keystone-electronics/3548/36-3548-ND/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/keystone-electronics/3571/36-3571-ND/" target="_blank">https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/keystone-electronics/3571/36-3571-ND/</a></div><div><br></div><div>- Piotr</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:30 AM Quincas Moreira <<a href="mailto:quincas@gmail.com" target="_blank">quincas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The thing Befaco and Vinicius Brazil do (two eurorack designers that design modules with the option of either thonkies or bananas) is have a hole on the Thonkiconn footprint on the PCB big enough for the bottom of the nanner to go through and then get hand wired back to the appropriate pad on the PCB. This is the only solution I know to the height difference problem. Cheers</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:03 AM john slee <<a href="mailto:indigoid@oldcorollas.org" target="_blank">indigoid@oldcorollas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>(should have noted that I haven't tried this and probably won't — I'm not building things with nanas!)<br></div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 20:58, john slee <<a href="mailto:indigoid@oldcorollas.org" target="_blank">indigoid@oldcorollas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Google yielded a bunch, like this one:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.caltestelectronics.com/ctitem/91-jacks-banana-jacks/CT3151V1" target="_blank">https://www.caltestelectronics.com/ctitem/91-jacks-banana-jacks/CT3151V1</a></div><div><br></div><div>All the options I've seen are significantly taller than a 9mm pot and also taller than typical toggle switches. Presumably this is due to nana plugs being longer than 3.5mm plugs</div><div><br></div><div>However... here's a hare-brained scheme from someone that absolutely hates hand-wiring things, and assuming the worst case where things of varying heights need to be intermingled, like a Serge panel:</div><div><br></div><div>They are sufficiently taller than 9mm and 16mm pots that you might be able to arrange to have two overlapping PCBs joined by ribbon or similar — one for your circuitry and "shallow" controls like pots, and another for nanas? You could have milled holes in the "front" board for the nanas to poke through from the rear board.</div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 19:08, pinoaffe <pinoaffe@airmail.cc> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi everybody!<br>
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Do you have recommendations for banana jacks that can be mounted to a<br>
pcb and a front panel in a similar fashion to the thonkiconn 3.5mm<br>
jacks?<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
pinoaffe<br>
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