3 Apr
2003
3 Apr
'03
7:06 a.m.
Tony,
Good tip.
When I assemble those 'transition connectors' -- the ones that crimp onto
the ribbon cable and then solder permanently to the PCB -- I stick the
pins into one of those plugblock 'breadboards' so they don't get bent.
It's actually the only use I've found for those breadboards!
[...]
and it's not trivial to crimp onto the cable
without damage
When I made something like that up, I plugged an already
assembled female into the male, so that when I pressed is thin, nor onto it's pins. Another way to do it
without needing
the die you said you had gotten. I also use a vise since I don't
In this case, the die was a fairly small amount of money (around \pounds
10.00), we needed to make up about 10 cables (this was for 'work', not
home hacking...) and the die was available from the place the sold the
connectors. Buying the die was the obvious thing to do.
-tony