OptiWiz - Header attachment...thing.

[Necro]

Ok..I'm just wondering.  I got my OptiWiz (still waiting on my Oscar Vortex to get here), but...I went to RadioShock today to get the header wire thingey to attach to my solderless headers and....

...they don't have anything I can attach.  Nothing.

Anyone have any ideas what I can use to attach to these?  I figured I'd be able to get 2-4 wire leads or something to use from there, but there's nothing.  I'm kind of stuck here unless I figure something out.

TIA.

(picture is here of the headers on the board: http://www.arcadepanels.com/gib/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=260)

[BobA]

You can order the cable and header attachment from an electronics supply place. But you might want to look thru your junk drawer or the junk drawer of a friend for the cable that connected the the header for the serial port on MB or serial port card..

Even radio shack might have them if they knew where to look.  Cut the rs232 connector off and you have a ribbon cable with a 2x5 connector.

[Necro]

Ah ok.  I didnt think the wire on those was of a low enough gauge to work.  If wire that thin will work, I should have something .

[cholin]

You dont need much in terms of wire thickness... signals tend to be like 20mA running through those wires...  if a hard drive can run off an IDE cable, im sure your things can too right?

[markrvp]

Ah ok.  I didnt think the wire on those was of a low enough gauge to work.  If wire that thin will work, I should have something .

That will work fine.  Most of the beta tests were used with a harness made from the wire used on the serial port cable.  Be aware, though that the serial cable will likely have 9 wires instead of 10.

BTW, any connector that is a double row .100 spacing will work (just like an IDE connector, but shorter)

[Necro]

OK, I have a few older crappy IDE cables I may be able to use also.  Worse comes to worse I can go hit a resale store for the University I'm working at and grab some there for really...REALLY...cheap.

[Kremmit]

Ah ok.  I didnt think the wire on those was of a low enough gauge to work.  If wire that thin will work, I should have something .

That will work fine.  Most of the beta tests were used with a harness made from the wire used on the serial port cable.  Be aware, though that the serial cable will likely have 9 wires instead of 10.

BTW, any connector that is a double row .100 spacing will work (just like an IDE connector, but shorter)

I didn't use those serial cables.  I opened up an old pentium I was using for a footrest and ripped the wiring that ran from the power button, reset button, turbo button (weren't those funny?), leds and speaker out.  The headers on those cables were perfect, and already had real wire attached to them.  CDROM audio cables also have the right size headers, but often don't have all 4 holes populated.

[cholin]

Never really understood those turbo buttons!  I used to just click them for the hell of it, didnt think they actually did anything.  Selling feature gone wrong?