Thanks for all the advice. I did pretty much what you recommended. I got a 40 conductor ribbon cable and trimmed it down to 25 conductors and crimped a 26 pin female socket into one end and a male db25 connector onto the other end. I originally tried a premade female db25 ribbon cable and used a 6 foot male to male db25 cable to connect it to the computer but the mesa card wouldn't work with it.
Got it hooked up and controlling some steppers and reading some encoders on a test bench. James Reed wrote: > I knew I was going to do quite a lot of ribbon cable work, so I bought a 50 > conductor ribbon cable and the necessary ribbon cable connectors (ribbon to > DB25 and header) to do the job. The 50 conductor was all I could find > available, so I just stripped off what upper conductors I didn't need. > The cables like you show were much too short for me. I made mine around 3 > foot long. > > >> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:27:52 +0000 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43 parallel port hookup >> >> On 13 February 2010 05:42, Flying Electron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?action=Showitem&partno=07123&rsite=f.07123 >>> <http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?action=Showitem&partno=07123&rsite=f.07123> >>> >> The 7i43 manual seems to indicate that that will work. >> >> "EPP INTERFACE CONNECTOR >> On the 7I43 (but not the 7I43H), P2 is the EPP printer port interface >> connector. P2 >> is a 26 pin header. P2 pin-out matches stands DB25 printer port >> pin-out, allowing a simple >> flat cable with a DB25M IDC connector on one end and a 26 pin female >> header on the >> other end to interface the hosts printer port to the 7I43." >> >> >>> What are other people using to hook up the EPP port? >>> >> I soldered the ribbon cable wires to the D-sub connector individually, >> but only because that was the only type of header I had. >> >> -- >> atp >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, >> Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
