Thank you Dieter. I also understand that two bus boards can be connected by using a 16 pin ribbon cable between unused headers on each board - do you see any problems with that method Matt

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , <yahoo@...> wrote:
>
> > No reply here but, for future seekers after the same information,
> > James Husted of Synthwerks replied on another forum that the bus
> > rails can be connected between the CV & Gate pins of any unused
> > headers using the A-100BC cable.
> >
> > A doepfer cable long enough to reach from the top to the bottom
> > bus rail in a 9U case would be useful though.
> >
> > Matt
>
> So far nobody was asking for a longer A-100BC. That's why we do not offer
> the A-100BC with longer cables. Of course it would be easy to use longer
> cables for the A-100BC if required.
>
> For the A-100BC cable open jumpers are used. The wires are simply soldered
> to the jumpers. One has to pay attention that not too many solder is used.
> Otherwise the jumpers are filled with solder and cannot be used any more. I
> don't think that you will find such a cable elsewhere. But you may use two
> A-100BC to transmit the CV and/or gate signal. Simply use free terminals of
> one of the bus board pin headers (usually not all pin headers are used). The
> upper pin pair is gate, the second pair is CV.
>
> In addition I'd recommend active bus buffers (A-185-1/2) over A-100BC
> because of the possible voltage loss if the CV is connected to many
> oscillator CV inputs.
>
> Best wishes
> Dieter Doepfer
>