23 Mar
2003
23 Mar
'03
6:48 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
That's what we used, too. However, it is still kind of an advanced
exercise to cut the wires to a suitable length before stripping and
soldering, so that after these steps they will fit into the small shell
together with the strain relief clamp, in particular if you want the
metalized shell to be properly grounded from the inside...
If you had managed that for the first time, you would usually discover
that you forgot to slip that rubber tube onto the cable to prevent it
AUI cable? - Oh
yes, I do remember: when I was at the University of
Darmstadt, getting those four pairs and all the shields into the shell
of a 15-pin connector was the hardest test somebody had to stand before
I got the type of shell that's made in 2 halves, so I didn't have to feed
the cable through a small hole... from breaking where it leaves the plug. If it happens
when you managed
the second time, then it's worse, because you cannot drop it
in from the
other end of the cable... - But this is nothing special with transceiver
cable, it happens with all sort of cabling, all the time. It only seems
to vary in proportion to the number of pins inside the connector... ;-)
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Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com