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Title: Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: teef two on December 11, 2003, 06:18:10 am

Chaps,

I was thinking about the swappable panels thing and would like to do this. However I'm not keen on doing soldering (I'll just screw it up big style!). What I wanted was a method of disconnecting from the ipac simply and easily.

In my search for molex connectors I came across this (http://www.homestead.co.uk/c01dcc.htm) nice little thing.

I reckon that a couple of these babies will do the trick nicely and remove the need for soldering. Anyone have any views.

I realise this is a UK site but I'm sure this stuff is available worldwide.

Title: Re:Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: Rocky on December 11, 2003, 09:15:16 am

Save yourself some crimping.  Buy a 6' cable and cut it in half. Make sure it has the needed amount of wires inside.


Rocky

Title: Re:Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: mahuti on December 11, 2003, 10:08:56 am

I have those. They work great.

Title: Re:Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: LOKIOLR on December 11, 2003, 10:35:27 am

Those are what I'm using for my cabinet.

Title: Re:Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: Chris on December 11, 2003, 11:41:31 am

Quote from: Rocky on December 11, 2003, 09:15:16 am

Save yourself some crimping.  Buy a 6' cable and cut it in half. Make sure it has the needed amount of wires inside.

That's exactly what I did... no crimping, and all your wires are color coded to boot.

--Chris

Title: Re:Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: chrisindfw on December 11, 2003, 02:39:12 pm

I am interested in the same thing. What wire do you have?

Question... Is it better to have one IPAC and have the wires connect/Disconnect between the IPAC and the CP or to have multiple IPAC's

Title: Re:Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: SirPoonga on December 11, 2003, 06:02:48 pm

I have 1 ipac.  That's all you need.

Title: Re:Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: soslo on December 11, 2003, 06:13:34 pm

get a parallel cable. There are 24 or 25 wires in it. Go to a garage sale or a computer shop - get one for $1.

Title: Re:Useful product for swappable panels
Post by: eightbit on December 11, 2003, 06:45:28 pm

Make sure its a Parallel or serial extension cable. It has 25 color coded wires. Different brands use different colors per pin so try to make them the same brand because that makes it much easier.
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