I am just getting around to wiring Tracy EFI/IGN computer
and I had an idea. Tracy uses a 37 pin D sub min male connector
that is rather hard to attach tiny wires to unless you are real good with
a tiny soldering iron or you have a special crimping tool.
This is a job I was not looking forward too as my eyesight
and hand coordination is not what it was when I was younger.

I was driving home from the hangar tonight and had an idea.
I have a whole bunch of these terminal strips left
over from another project and I had the idea of making a small
printed circuit board that would adapt a male 37 pin D sub min
printed circuit board connector to these easy to use terminal strips.
Merely strip the wire, insert it in the hole and tighten the screw.

I am laying out the PC board and will order a bunch of mating male
37 pin D sub min connectors to solder to the printed circuit adapter
board. If anybody wants such an adapter let me
know. Cost should be around $20 or $30.

Paul Lamar

I would be interested. Let me know how it works out.

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Bulent Aliev
Stretched CZ MK-IV W/Turbo Rotary
Ft Lauderdale, FL FXE
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-MyPlane

Here is roughly what it is going to look like.
The shell around the male pins is missing in this illustration
so you can see the pins.

Paul Lamar
 
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