The official GroupDIY 511 Help & Support Thread

[benlindell]

I believe they said 6 pins will work:

+16
-16
+48
Ground
+24
-24

 

[Brolik]

Got as much done as I can for now:.

Maybe you'll have some time to finish up that stack of eq's in the background now? 

 

[benlindell]

Thanks. They are done, getting the front panels back from laser engraving this week, I'm really stoked to finish them, 4 channels of Neumann W492 and 8 channels of S800.

 

[[silent:arts]]

7pin is just fine

 

[ledogboy]

I'm sure this info is somewhere in the many threads about these racks, but does anyone know the exact name/specs for the grounding and stereo link header/jumper parts?  Possibly even catalog numbers if ya wanna be a real sweetheart...

Perusing Mouser's website left me awash in a sea of Molex, not knowing which to pick.
Thanks!

 

[benlindell]

I got these:
571-9-146274-0

But... They are the shorter tails which means they were falling out unless I pushed them in hard with an oven mit on and a small solder tip to get inside the hole and heat the pin. Or, which was also hard, pulling the pin back and extending the tail.

Anyone have better solutions?

 

[oceres]

3M makes headers with longer tails.

.210" tail should fit nicely
517-834-02-36

 

[zayance]

Family from Munchen got me some gooods  ;D PROST

Can't wait the case to be here, and by the way Volker, did you received money for transformer? Thanks a lot, i'll drink one for this one, hmmm maybe two  ;D.

 

[ChuckD]

Can someone suggest a way to fit a 7pin XLR socket on the back ?
The PCB board gets in the way.  Is this even possible?

What is everyone doing to plug the hole in the back? I would really like to have a standard 7pin socket here.

Chuck

 

[Ptownkid]

I'm pretty sure a neutrik d series will fit on the outside...I'm looking into getting a package together with the following

EDITSeems as if they do not fit through the hole...still investigating

1 female D series connector
1 male D series connector
1 male inline connector
1 female inline connector
all 7 pin and possibly the actual wire.

 

[ChuckD]

They do not have enough clearance on the inside .
Unless there is a shorter part you have  a number for?

 

[Ptownkid]

as long as you mount it from the outside it should be fine...however, the D series is a little large for the hole. Still thinking.

 

[briomusic]

these http://products.hirschmann.de//index.php?sessiontoken=20100304002348-11111111&manid=4&CFID=&CFTOKEN=&pbparam=tid=10,pid=870,spid=2,maid=1,view=2 work great for me (the CA6 series) they have a 7th earth connection in the middle and the panel mounted sockets/connectors fit behind the pcb and into the existing hole.
just need fresh holes for the screws to attach the connector.

 

[Ptownkid]

Looks like amphenol has a bunch that will suit the need well and aren't too expensive. Will report back

 

[zayance]

I'll be using this if i can, Japan standards, nice key lock design, not just a bump on the connector, they look good for an ok price, of course Amphenol, Lumberg, Binder etc... Have some descent models:

http://radiospares-fr.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=searchProducts&searchTerm=297-6662&x=0&y=0

http://radiospares-fr.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=searchProducts&searchTerm=297-6561&x=44&y=22

 

[Ptownkid]

Those won't fit the screw holes...they have to have a screw spacing of 20mm

 

[zayance]

:'( Thanks for clarifying, i'm still waiting for the case to check out...

 

[iangomes]

go ptown go ptown go! go ptown go ptown go! (similar to go ninja go from tmnt 2).
I was checking out the amphenol connectors on digikey. I thought I found one that would be close enough, but I couldn't find a similar version of the other polarity (m/f)

 

[Ptownkid]

The really unfortunate part here is that in North America, the hole spacing on the panel fits hardly any of our available options. 5 way connectors with 20mm hole spacing is VERY common, but 99% of the 7 way ones are 22-23mm spacing.

Might be worth looking at changing that on the next run boys.

 

[[silent:arts]]

They do not have enough clearance on the inside .
Unless there is a shorter part you have  a number for?

Holger did it, and regarding my CAD drawing it should work:

as mentioned it has to be mounted from the outside.