Gene, I realize Chinaco is not your favorite source for multitude of reasons, but I found this IDC50 pin break out board:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/IDC50-male-to-50P-terminal-block-IDC50P-breakout-board-adapter-PLC-relay-terminals-DIN-Rail-Mounted/32644028252.html Something like that you're looking for? Mark On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings; > > I spent an hour early this morning looking around in the cracks and > crannies of both web sites, looking for an adapter that would plug into > the 50 pin sockets on the 7i90, that would, without interfering with the > adjacent socket, give me a row of micro screw terminals so I wouldn't > have to putz with cutting these pissy-assed, cheap jumper cables in two > and splicing them onto the ends of the cables coming into the box, > > Failed miserably. > > I can well imagine that such a connector is not a COTS item. But trying > to get 50 wire ribbon cables to some place remote from a card like the > 7i90HD isn't a luxury I have room for, so I am forced to use these very > pooly built jumpers solder spliced & heat shrink covered to make the > transition from the larger gauge coupling wires in the cables going out > to the machine. It does suggest a new layout at some point for those > cards that use the 50 pin scsi-ii type sockets, putting one connector > per card edge so the plugging in of a purely passive terminal block > adaptor then leaves access for all 3, as opposed to haveing them covered > by their neighbors 50-way ribbons. > > Better, nearly as compact options? Suggestions aimed for limited overhead > situations? I'm all eyes. > > 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> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
