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Topic: Ribbon Cable Direction
April 27, 2025, 11:10:47 PM
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musicarr
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Ribbon Cable Direction
Hi,
Getting ready to build my first Sound Skulptor units (MP573). In prep for that, I'm building the XT500. It looks like the ribbon cable has one "wire" at the top that is red. On the each of the two PCB's, there is a white dot. From what I can glean from the two images on the product page, the top, red "wire" on the cable should be oriented to the white dot's on the two PCB's. Is that correct? If so, and because the ribbon cable connectors can only go fit in one direction in the ribbon connector sockets, it looks like the cable that connects to the PCB that connects to the inside of the 500 series chassis is 180 degrees different than what's in the product images. See images. It'll be a little cumbersome to get it into the 500 chassis because of the cable direction/orientation of the ribbon connector, but if the "red line to white dot" orientation is the important part, then I guess that's the way it is. Granted, I can flip the ribbon cable, but then the ribbon will be kind of going over the test pins. Or... is the cable that was sent, manufactured 180 degrees the wrong way on one end?
Just want to be
sure before I use it for testing.
Thanks
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April 28, 2025, 08:27:25 AM
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JPK
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Re: Ribbon Cable Direction
Granted, I can flip the ribbon cable, but then the ribbon will be kind of going over the test pins.
This is what we do. The cable is correct, we purchase it pre-assembled. Going over the test pins is not a big problem.
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JPK
April 28, 2025, 02:23:46 PM
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musicarr
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Re: Ribbon Cable Direction
Cool. That works for me. Just wanted to be sure what I did was correct. Thanks for the confirmation.
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