On Wednesday 13 January 2016 23:06:55 Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/13/2016 06:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > A heads up on Chinese made DB25's. > > > > Always before, the 'merican db25 IDC's I have used, have had a 26th > > track that is not connected to anything within the cap and cable > > seating area so they fitted 26 conductor cable nicely. > > > > The new far eastern connectors I just got today, do NOT have that > > 26th track in the moldings, so one must remove at least 1/2" of the > > 26th wire in order to make the retainer caps seat correctly. > > I've used ribbon crimp DB25 connectors for years. I have > NEVER had one that had a 26th cable position. > I make a DB25 to dual-row .1" 26-position IDC header cable > to daisy-chain two of my universal stepper controllers. > I've made these since 2002, and always had to trim the 26th > wire off the cable to fit the DB25 end. While I don't doubt > that there was such a connector made, I've never seen one, > and have used crimp DB25s back into the 1980's for sure. > > Jon
Some I've had before, I think I got them from Radio Shack, had room for the 26th, unused wire. So finding something I had to trim it off to make the latching caps fit right was a surprise to me. I maybe should have peeled it full length? Seems like the right thing to do, or buy 25 wire cable, hard to find though. Up to now I had assumed that ribbon cable always came in even numbers of conductors. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
