16 Mar
2004
16 Mar
'04
12:22 a.m.
Hi, Joe,
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On 16-Mar-04 at 08:08 Joe R. wrote:
I picked up a couple of rack mount computers last week.
Most of them were
made by Harris and Texas Micro and are MOL standard passive backplace type
stuff. However one of them was made by Kontron and it has a very strange
power connector. It's a black cylinder about 1 1/4" in diameter and about 1
1/2" long that sticks out of the chassis. The back half of the cylinder is
threaded so it appears that the mating connector screws onto it. The front
portion of the cylinder is divided lenghtwise into five segments. Four of
the sements have holes in them with a male connector pin resessed into the
holes. I opened the chassis and found that it was marked as being built to
That sounds like a common MIL-C-5015 series connector. I could probably find a mate for
it in a few minutes.
operate off of 72 VDC power and that all four connecotr
pins are wired tot
he PSU. Is anyone familar with the type of connector or why or where they
use 72 VDC power? The computer doesn't look like anything exceptional. It
72VDC is frequently used in diesel-electric railroad locomotives. It is possible that
this system was designed to work in one.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
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ports?"