14 Jun
2015
14 Jun
'15
11:27 a.m.
On 2015-06-14 19:25, Mark J. Blair wrote:
What happened to the original cable and distribution panel?
As a warning - the original distribution panel have a fuse for the
15-pin Dsub, to avoid excessive power use on the connector. If you go
directly from the board to a transciever, you might run the risk of
damaging the DELUA itself if something goes wrong.
Put another way. The design is to have an internal cable from the DELUA
to a distribution panel at the back of the machine. There you have the
15 pin AUI connector, which have a fuse. You then had an external AUI
cable from there to your transciever, which traditionally sat on a thick
coax. Of course, later on, you started having thin ethernet. Still AUI
cable and transciever, though. Eventually twisted pair showed up. But
you had transcievers for that as well. And if you have room behind the
machine, you could connect the thin ethernet or twisted pair
transscievers directly to the distribution panel connector, so no actual
external cable.
Johnny
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On Jun 14, 2015, at 10:01, tony duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
If the connector on the DELUA board is a normal Berg-type header (and I think it is) then
maybe you could
use a piece of (twist-n-flat?) ribbon cable to make an extension that could be routed
through the cable
pan arrangement and then connected to the original DELUA cable back in the rack cabinet.
That might be a good approach. The DELUA end of the cable has a Berg connector, and the
other end has the typical 15-pin D-sub AUI connector with a slide latch. I'll look up
the cable wiring to see if signals that would best be twisted pairs are conveniently
placed on adjacent odd/even pins, such that twisted pair ribbon cable would work well
electrically.
Or maybe I can use the round cable that I already have, with P-shaped cable clamps
screwed down using the screws at one end of the flat cable clamps. There may not be enough
clearance in the tray for that.