In case you're in any doubt, I have a handful of spare Doepfer cable
that you can have for nothing. just drop me a PM with your details.

Yours Aye

Stuadh

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , James Husted
<the_ersatz_planet@...> wrote:

>
> Technically speaking you can reverse the plug orientation ONLY if you
> do on both ends and ONLY if you make sure on the 10-pin plugs that
> the socket (the cable end) us lined up to the -12V pins and doesn't
> over hang that end of the header at all. The cables are just cables -
> no electronics involved. The cables use 2 wires for each voltage/gnd
> connection. the 2 columns of the headers are the same for each row
> (-12v, GND, +12v, +5v etc.) so should work even if only one column is
> plugged in though that cuts down the current handling ability of the
> cable. As you may notice the page referenced below does not mention
> the red stripe at all but it does stress "Pay attention that applying
> other than the described voltages or changing the polarity will
> result in the module's instant destruction !" This will for sure
> happen if the cable ends are nor oriented the same at both ends.
> Doepfer has made this easy be printing the voltages next to the pins
> on all the modules I remember. In practice you should make sure all
> modules in your system have the same cable orientation and it it
> would be a good idea to match the orientation of factory delivered
> modules that have the cable attached already - just so you don't mess
> up when you re-arrange them in the future (and you WILL re-arrange
> them in the future!). A good arrangement would be to have the red
> stripe always at the -12v pins that way the cable will be easy to use
> on both 10 and 16 pin headers.
>
> -James
>
>
> On Aug 5, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Anthony Rolando wrote:
>
> >
> > Nooooooo (sound of man falling off a cliff).
> >
> > http://www.doepfer.de/a100_man/a100t_e.htm
> >
> > Please read this page.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> >> From: monroe.eskew@...
> >> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:16:34 -0500
> >> Subject: 1 red band orientation
> >>
> >> Is the red band on the power ribbon just a marker to help us Is the
> >> power ribbon functionally symmetrical, so that we can reverse the
> >> plug
> >> orientation on both ends and be alright
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Monroe
> >>
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