9 Nov
2010
9 Nov
'10
6:28 p.m.
On 11/9/10, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
The cables are differnet betwene the RLs and the
RK06/07 (the latter has
all pins bet one (termintor power) connected
That rings a bell (term power).
the former has rather fewer
wired), but AFAIK the terminator is the same (it terminates all signal
pins. I think at least one RL controller printset shows the exploded view
of the terminators with 'First used on Option/Model : RK06' specified.
OK. That's a good detail to remember when setting up drives of either kind.
One handy bit of trivia if you happen to have spare Unit plugs from
the high numbers of an RK06/RK07 set is that they work in an RL01/RL02
if you mentally mask off 2^2 (i.e., an RK06/RK06 plug labelled "4" is
"0" on an RL01/RL02). It's the same sort of switch/bulb housing, but
one less bit going back to the electronics. We didn't do it often,
but sometimes we were short some of the numbers and we did have a
couple of RK07s and a drawer of random unit plugs.
-ethan