On Monday 06 August 2007 09:30, Joachim Thiemann wrote:
On 06/08/07, David Griffith <dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
> Can someone recommend a source for the 7-pin PCB-mount DIN jacks used=
for
the power
jack on a Commodore 64?
Could you just use an 8-pin jack (like digi-key A32316-ND) and ignore
the middle pin (cut it on the PCB side)?
Those 8-pin sockets will accept the 7-pin plugs all right -- I once had a=
=20
repair where someone plugged their power supply into the video connector,=
=20
and the attached circuitry was NOT happy! :-) They'll also accept the 5=
-pin=20
connector, as my bench test video/audio cable was equpped with such.
And for that matter the 3-pin DIN plug will fit said socket.
This explains the strange pin numbering of these sockets (for the 7 pin
it's 6 1 4 2 5 3 7 rounf the arc, on the 8 pin it's the same with pin 8
in the middle, etc) You start wit he 3 pin plug, which has the pins 1 2 3
in the obvious, sensible, order. The 5 pin added pins 4 and 5 between
them. The 7 pin added pins 6 and 7 on the ends.
The copatibility is intentiona./ The original use of this connector was
for audio applications, for a mono tape recorder socket. Pin one was the
output from the radio (input to the tape recorder). Pin 2 was ground. And
pin 3 was the input to the eadio (output from the tape recorder). For
stereo. the 5 pin plug was used, pin 2 remained earth, pins 1 nad 3 kept
their old functions for the ledt-hand channel ,while pins 4 and 5 were
the corresding functions for the right-hand channel.
There are actually 2 other 5 pin DIN connectors. The one we've been
talking about is commonly called 'type A' or '180 degree'. There's a
'type B' or '240 degree' that has a similar compatability with the 6 pin
connecotr, and those were originally intended for 'non audio signals',
for example PSU inputs to a battery tape recorder/radio, remote controls,
slide projector control, etc. And there's the 'type C' or '360 degree'
or
'Quincuncial' that was sometimes used for headphones.
There's also an 8 pin version with the 2 pins at the end of the arc
offset. It's incompatible with the normal 7 and 8 pin plugs (although
AFAIK the 3 pi nand 5 pin plugs will fit). I've never seen an analagous 7
pin connector.
AFAIK _all_ have been sued somewhere on classic computer equipment.
-tony