Hi Paul,
You shut down before I could send this, so I'll put it in the Draft
folder and see if I can remember to send it Wed. :)
Ah, you're back on line early. so here it is.
Here are some photo's of the prototype cable. I don't know if there is
anything there to give it away, but just in case, I will mention up
front that the 'D' connectors are not the good gold plated ones I will
use for production cables. They are cheap ones I got at the local
electronics store. Sorry the photo of the soldered pins is blury. I
will take a better one on the next cable I build.
I'm putting a nominal price of $95.00 for the cable but that will have
to be adjusted depending on how much wire is used for each
installation. I think the price is low for the amount of work that
goes into it, but I will keep it at that for a while. I've worked up a
spreadsheet for specifying length of the various cable runs and
calculating the cost based on the lengths input. I will set up a web
site, hopefully by Wednesday where I can post everything.
---------------added 5/31/05
One wire is missing on this cable, and I have a couple of others that
shouldn't be there. The missing wire is the fuel injector signal to
the EM2. Extras; pin 29 used to have a tach output, but Tracy tells me
nothing should be connected to it now; and there is a ground wire
on pin 16 because early wiring diagrams showed that pin grounded. Pin
16 is ground internally, and that wire can be used as an EC2 ground
point. Nothing wrong that affects functionality.
I don't have my labels yet, but each wire is labelled with it's pin
number.
If you think this cable would help, I would be glad to send it out. I
was going to send it to Tracy to review, but I really want to find out
how well Jerry's muffler works. :)
The web site it at
http://www.roblin-photo.com/cable/cable.html
Bob W.
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Good work Bob. If we were smart we could use a ribbon cable for
the instrument panel control connections on the aux PC board.
We will try the one Mark made tommorrow as Tracy tested it and it seems
to be OK. I think we juct have a grounding problem.
Paul Lamar
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