On 9/30/2015 8:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> It looks like a fairly decent card, if only it didn't have the DB-25 male
> input that makes you buy a $25 cable from the Mach people.  Male to
> female cables seem to be scarce in these here parts.
>
> Hence the order for a pair of F-F gender changers at <$3 ea going in last
> night, along with me buying the last 2 Magnate 7507 bits from Amazon.  I
> sure hope they are sharper than the first one, as the result will
> otherwise need a lot of sanding to remove the "hair" the first one wants
> to leave while carving pine

When I need something funky odd for a computer cable, I have 
cableclub.com make it. One was an external SCSI cable with a combination 
of connectors and length that was completely unobtainable as a stock 
item, and the price was pretty cheap from them.

'Course that was a decade or so ago...

I should enquire about the availability, or not, of USB gender changers 
with a user assembled housing. I want to make some trick charging 
adapters to make Apple and Samsung devices to pull maximum power from 
any USB wall wart with the capability to supply 2+ amps. It's not as 
simple as shorting the data pins with those brands, and the Samsung 
tablets *need* to pull at least 2 amps to not have the charge slowly 
drop while they're being used.

$30 for a "special" Samsung wall wart when the secret is just a couple 
of resistors!

Now if there's a way to automatically sense Apple, Samsung or "other" 
and switch to the proper voltages on the data lines, or just short the 
data lines...

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