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General Mach Discussion / Re: CS Labs CSMIO/P-A
« on: August 22, 2018, 03:34:10 AM »
Hi,
the origin of these fine pitch plugs was for ribbon cables. Get a plug and crimp the cable in and your done, no soldering.
Next point is that you will not need to populate the whole thing anyway. You'll need 6 wires for the encoder, probably one analogue input,
possibly a couple of digital inputs for enable etc and a couple for error outputs for a total of 11 wires. If you had to solder them....tough get on and
do it.
I seem to recall saying earlier in this thread 'don't overlook the cost of the cables', I know I was surprised how difficult/expensive/time consuming
it was, I rather hoped you could buy all these cables new and no fuss.
Craig
the origin of these fine pitch plugs was for ribbon cables. Get a plug and crimp the cable in and your done, no soldering.
Next point is that you will not need to populate the whole thing anyway. You'll need 6 wires for the encoder, probably one analogue input,
possibly a couple of digital inputs for enable etc and a couple for error outputs for a total of 11 wires. If you had to solder them....tough get on and
do it.
I seem to recall saying earlier in this thread 'don't overlook the cost of the cables', I know I was surprised how difficult/expensive/time consuming
it was, I rather hoped you could buy all these cables new and no fuss.
Craig