SCSI Cable Connectors

chris_g_navy · Post by **chris_g_navy** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:18 am

I was at work today and was looking over Moos Jr's portable, and i wanted to do mine the same way. Seeing as i have about 300ft of 50 pin ribbon cable and another 100ft of various other types, i need to find the right connectors, i cannot find the 90 degree male coupler that he has though. Can any of you guys help me out? All i have are the female ones, that plug into the bottom of the cartridge holder, i need the 50 pin 90 degree one that goes into the motherboard.
Thanks

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:49 pm

He didn't use a 90 degree adapter; he bought a lot of headers (pins) and bent them so that they formed a 90 degree angle. Its a bit more work but it works just the same. Just make sure you somehow fix the SCSI cable to the board so that it doesn't come lose.

chris_g_navy · Post by **chris_g_navy** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:09 pm

Ok, well, I've been looking for the past 4 hours or so for those, and I finally found some. Here they are:

SCSI Headers
http://www.connectworld.net/cgi-bin/pro ... mZaDF;;465

I ordered 3 of the male and 3 of the female. Should work perfect once i cut off the molding around the male header and spread them a bit. Hopefully, this will work and that will leave me with 299 ft of SCSI cable left over.

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:46 pm

Well I guess you could do that, but I was talking about single headers. They're just pins that you slip through holes in a motherboard. If you want to do a SCSI relocation you have to leave the Ext. slot on the back though, don't forget this.

EDIT: Heres a random google pic:

chris_g_navy · Post by **chris_g_navy** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:26 pm

I planned on leaving the expansion port in there for now, I don't want to make needless risks right now anyways.
BTW, what did you search for to find that single header? It took me about 4 hours to find the double header IDC's

Xiro · Post by **Xiro** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:46 pm

chris_g_navy wrote:I planned on leaving the expansion port in there for now, I don't want to make needless risks right now anyways.
BTW, what did you search for to find that single header? It took me about 4 hours to find the double header IDC's

if you honestly spent four hours searching for pics i pity you.
http://images.google.com/images?q=dual+ ... =&safe=off

10 second search scroll down and you see them

chris_g_navy · Post by **chris_g_navy** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:05 pm

OK well....
1.) If you had actually READ my post...you would have seen that i wasn't searching for pics, i was searching for the product
2.)I didn't have a name of the product to start with, so i had to start by guessing the name
3.)Not everyone is blessed with a lightning fast internet connection, in all actuality, the connection on this ship is about half the speed of 56k
4.)I'm not asking for your pity over a meaningless image search, I needed help finding the connector that I was going to use.

Thank you though for the link to the google image[/u]

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:10 pm

The other thing you could search for is a "Right Angle Header." Get one with at least 50 pins, you can just snip off the extras.

EDIT: Oh, and the expansion port and ext. port are two different things. It gets confusing, but remember that the you plug an expansion pack into the expansion port, and the ext. port just sits underneath the motherboard and takes up space. I know what you meant though.

chris_g_navy · Post by **chris_g_navy** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:35 am

Thanks joe

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:25 pm

chris_g_navy wrote:OK well....
1.) If you had actually READ my post...you would have seen that i wasn't searching for pics, i was searching for the product
2.)I didn't have a name of the product to start with, so i had to start by guessing the name
3.)Not everyone is blessed with a lightning fast internet connection, in all actuality, the connection on this ship is about half the speed of 56k
4.)I'm not asking for your pity over a meaningless image search, I needed help finding the connector that I was going to use.

Thank you though for the link to the google image[/u]

Half of dial up speed? That really sucks, I pity you.

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:32 pm

What kind of case are you making?

chris_g_navy · Post by **chris_g_navy** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:33 pm

Have you ever heard of something called a Fast Pack? if not, Its a plastic container that you ship electronic components in. They come in varying sizes, the reason they are called Fast Packs, is, instead of wrapping the card by itself, you just throw it in the pack. The one i found is about perfect, ill get pics later tonight on my site www.freewebs.com/chris_g_navy
You'll find pics of the screen im going to use there and some other stuff. BTW i had to get another 64, my old one fried

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:47 pm

Yeah definitely do the N64 last, don't open it as soon as you get it or it will sit exposed and eventually fry. I learn from experience.

Are you using a PSOne screen?

chris_g_navy · Post by **chris_g_navy** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:50 pm

Nah, its a 7" portable dvd player screen, check out my pics on my site and you'll see it, along with my other pics

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:15 pm

Oh good because a PSOne screen can't handle 9.6V, you'd have to use an LM805.