On Tuesday 31 October 2017 10:59:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > I just woke up, so still a quart low on coffee, after I get the missus > fed etc, I'll go scope the end of the cable to see if its getting that > far. I've had trouble with these IDC connectors before, the 25 pinners > in particular, the center area is NOT well clamped and can open up. > Cable I have, probably 70 feet yet on a spool, but I may have to order > another big bag of connectors. These projects tend to use them all up. > Amphenol's blue plastic with tin surrounds for 25 pin dsubs. Is there > a better connector than Amphenol? Something with a thicker backstrap > so its clamped better in the middle? This is pin 8 and 9, almost > smack in the middle and can easily work back from contact. > Update, the last 15 wires in that cable were open. The connectors were backed off about 1/32", poorly clamped, but the main problem I suspect is that I did not strip the #26 wire off the cable full length when I made it some 2 years ago, resulting in that connector being forced out of alignment with the conductors. Two new connectors, a proper 25 wire cable, and its all alive and well. Now to rig the dual pid's for the spindle as I described earlier.
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