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DSUB Connectors - Direct wire or via jumper strip?
« on: July 08, 2009, 11:19:16 am »
Anyone that's used D-SUB cables for modular setups, did you connect the D-SUB wiring directly to buttons or did you use some kind of jumper strip to connect to the cable on one side and the controls on the other?

I'm about to get things going on wiring design for my 'base' cp and when I started working with the DSUB cable I realized how thin the wires actually were and I am a bit worried about running i all over the CP as exposed individual wires.

(Unrelated: Searching for D-SUB screws up the search engine)

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Re: DSUB Connectors - Direct wire or via jumper strip?
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2009, 08:14:52 pm »
Using a terminal strip will make things nice and clean on the inside, and is helpful is you plan on rummaging around under your CP often, but I think you could leave it out completely and be fine.

Also, you could use one of these:

http://www.winfordeng.com/products/brk25.php

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Re: DSUB Connectors - Direct wire or via jumper strip?
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2009, 09:57:02 pm »
Good god.  There 20 bucks each...which would be a LOT per CP...(lighted swappable CPs are requiring a decent number of cables/wires...)

I guess I'll attempt to do direct wiring and make damn sure the wires are secured to the bottom of the CP.


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Re: DSUB Connectors - Direct wire or via jumper strip?
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2009, 11:13:23 am »
FYI...  Shipping on the lot of 10 is $20!   :angry:

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Re: DSUB Connectors - Direct wire or via jumper strip?
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2009, 01:37:03 pm »
I got $13 from my location (42539).  I think these things would definitely be worth it at $2 or less a piece.  I do wonder why though some of the higher end ones around the net are like $75!  Geez, I didn't know some of this stuff could be as expensive as it was.  I used to work for the University of Kentucky department of physics and I used to throw away boxes full of the stuff after the students had gotten through with it at the end of the semester. 
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Re: DSUB Connectors - Direct wire or via jumper strip?
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2009, 03:17:06 pm »
This may actually be worth it....

This has now become my bane (how to wire this up).  Without really thinking it through, I got the following cables to associate with certain setups:

CableInterface BoardControl
DB37I-PAC2 (Old 28 input version)Joys/Buttons/Etc
DB25LEDDriveLighted CPs
DB15Mouse (?) Interface (forget which one)Trackball/Spinners

The method to my madness is I would have one cable for each controller I could COMPLETELY access via the cables.  Even if certain items (i.e. admin buttons) are wired into it from another location.

What I'm looking at now is my first main CP using the 37 and the 25.  The second CP would use all three (mouse controller w/lights).

This doesn't even get to the point of I have NO damn clue how to mount the cables now INSIDE the cabinet since it's cables and not just the interface/plugs that I could stuck in a sheet of metal.

:/