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Megasquirt adapter cable.
Chippy - 10/1/07 at 11:31 PM

Hi, I would like to get hold of two D 37 sockets, and hoods, plus a legth of cable to make up the cable from MS to adapter board. Tried Maplins, and RS with no luck. Anybody know of somewhere that I could get hold of these items. Cheers, Ray

ayoungman - 10/1/07 at 11:50 PM

We use a component firm at work called CPC. Its a big catalogue like RS and Maplins. Often, they stock more of the unusual stuff. I think they have a web site too.
HTH

watsonpj - 10/1/07 at 11:59 PM

try farnell

linky

Chippy - 11/1/07 at 12:15 AM

Great guy's, thats the D37's sorted, now just need to find a firm that will sell me a couple of meters of cable, (instead of 100m for £'s hundreds) Cheers, Ray

RazMan - 11/1/07 at 10:08 AM

Can't you find a ready made 'pin for pin' cable? Serial printer cable maybe?

James - 11/1/07 at 11:27 AM

quote:
Originally posted by watsonpj
try farnell

linky


Been buying from CPC for years... you could build house from the catalogues they're so big!

Farnell own CPC now anyway... or is it the other way around?

Anyway, they're the same thing.

HTH,
James

PeterW - 12/1/07 at 08:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Chippy
Great guy's, thats the D37's sorted, now just need to find a firm that will sell me a couple of meters of cable, (instead of 100m for £'s hundreds) Cheers, Ray


As far as I remember, Mega/jolt/squirt only use the tx and rx pins, so just use a bit of Cat5 and connect the 2 pins that you need.

Saying that, Cat5 has 8 cores and you only need 9 to make a full cable !

Its plenty big enough to use - drop me a U2U if you want a metre or 10 off my roll of Cat5

Cheers

Peter

martyn_16v - 12/1/07 at 10:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by RazMan
Can't you find a ready made 'pin for pin' cable? Serial printer cable maybe?


I wouldn't trust one to take some of the higher currents involved e.g. the main 12v and the injector/ignition earths. You could make it from a length of multicore cable and a couple of separate single cores for the heavier loads though...

Chippy - 12/1/07 at 11:15 PM

Thanks Guy's, now got it sorted, got the cable, sockets and hoods. Now the fun begins soldering it all up. Ray