Emax

well the plain bracket cost me £10

the connectors are a male idc 34pin with lugs 2 screws 4 washers and 2 nuts

then a length of 34 pin cable and a female 34pin idc plug 

the brackets for the slim floppy will be the same as the brackets that fit the cf card drive 

if in keyboard its 4 brackets if in rack its 2 brackets

as at the moment the costing to me is £20 for all the materials 

and an hours labour

then theres the slim floppy £5-10 depending where you get it from and a moded slim floppy adapter same again depending where you get it from usa they are about $6 but postage can be expensive  making the final cost and moding about $25 £17

germany they cost £8 with the cable and postage is about £5-7 when moded are about the same cost as £17

if you mod your self and live in usa or europe then its going to cost less

now the case is a 5.25 cdrom drive with a 5.25 to i but a usb to ide drive they cost £20+ depending where you get them from same again postage can be killer and can make it double in price these come with a wallwart psu of 5v 

you need a hd molex to minipox floppy power connector £3 + POSTAGE 

and the same again as the 34 pin cable for the bracket then you have to cut a slot for the male 34pin idc with lugs  and buy a 34 pin female to female idc cable either a flat ribbon or a screened round cable which i recomend as its external and could pick up interference that the keyboard casing might filter out

and a rev f hxc floppy emulator

but at least you can use your emulator with several synths and have a bracket in each

most synths are ok with starting up with out a floppy drive in there as they still work unlike emu gear which uses a signal to say the floppy drive is there and then goes into boot mode

its the same for all emu samplers even the e4 range through a wobbly when no floppy drive is present you have to add a jumper to pin 33/34 so that it boots properly when using a cf card drive in the floppy slot maybe the emax also uses the same connections

but for cheapness it would be better for me to write down source of the parts and people do it diy as 

it takes time and money to make a pdf of instructions and a and r and people always come back thats to expensive

the same for my custom scsi internal cables for the asr10 install but they cost in parts and take upto 2 hours to create and i charge accordingly yet people still moan 

so its best for cost effectiveness of doing it diy and i dont get the head ache of postage and packaging and orders and things that go missing and i have to send replacments

which happened to me recently with a screen board that i had to replace which was a costing of £150 plus postage to me as i had to buy a second display and install it and test and then pay postage of £20 the second time because the postage went up again and only charged £12 for postage from sending a screen at the beginning of the year 

the first time i sent the screen which cost me £14.50 a few week earlier as they put there prices up again which if it keeps on going up at that inflation rate wont be able to send anything to any where as it outways the cost of the actual item being payed for 



 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: sweetsynthchuck@... 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 12:19 PM
  Subject: [emax] RE: What about an IPCAS USB to replace the floppy drives in our units?


    
  Well i was hoping for a bracket when you have some,

  i wont be using my emax without it connected so i dont think there will be a problem, 

  do you have any idea on pricing?

  plain bracket / dual bracket with slim floppy?

   

  
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