KIT AVAILABLE !!! All In One PCB Kit to sell !!!

[Synthex]

Are the traces on these boards large enough to carry the input signals without noise or corruption?

Traces on these boards are 0.8 mm large.

[slayer666]

I started the two PCBs for 32 inputs :

INPUTS_PCB_005p.gif

How do you plan on connecting the boards?
On the All-in-one pcb there's one 40pin connector, On the input boards there's two of them.

On my boards I have a 20pin ribboncable linking the boards together.
Take a look in the file http://www.megadrum.info/forums/download/file.php?id=504

[Synthex]

How do you plan on connecting the boards?
On the All-in-one pcb there's one 40pin connector, On the input boards there's two of them.

I use a simple 40pin ribboncable, with 3 connectors on it ...
Like IDE cable to connect 2 IDE drive on one port.

[slayer666]

How do you plan on connecting the boards?
On the All-in-one pcb there's one 40pin connector, On the input boards there's two of them.

I use a simple 40pin ribboncable, with 3 connectors on it ...
Like IDE cable to connect 2 IDE drive on one port.

Ah, clever

[Junction]

Synthex, let me know if you do not intend to make the trigger interface socket PCB's. Maybe you could send me the artwork file and I can get some boards made here?

Thanks
Michael

[Juze]

Synthex, you are GENIUS!
Only minuses I can say are that:
1.You have to buy/get certain jacks
2.You have to etch/make more PCB's.
3.Standard "ready" IDE-cables have only 39 pins. There is no pin nr 20. (I haven't seen any 40 pin IDE-cable.)

I could say so much good things about that, so I don't mind to do that.
Hope you keep "engineering" on MegaDrum.

-Juze aka Ghroath

[elrules]

If you cannot use the common IDE cable, is it possible to modify it with little effort to be usable for megadrum allinone kit?

[Synthex]

Synthex, you are GENIUS!

Thanks a lot

Only minuses I can say are that:
1.You have to buy/get certain jacks
2.You have to etch/make more PCB's.
3.Standard "ready" IDE-cables have only 39 pins. There is no pin nr 20. (I haven't seen any 40 pin IDE-cable.)

I could say so much good things about that, so I don't mind to do that.
Hope you keep "engineering" on MegaDrum.

-Juze aka Ghroath

If you cannot use the common IDE cable, is it possible to modify it with little effort to be usable for megadrum allinone kit?

All my IDE-cables have 40 pins ...
Have you tried to drill a small hole on the connector ?

[jerzy]

Synthex, you are GENIUS!
Only minuses I can say are that:
1.You have to buy/get certain jacks
2.You have to etch/make more PCB's.
3.Standard "ready" IDE-cables have only 39 pins. There is no pin nr 20. (I haven't seen any 40 pin IDE-cable.)

4. with IDE cable there will be no electromagnetic shielding between channels

[Synthex]

4. with IDE cable there will be no electromagnetic shielding between channels

Yes, but for 10 or 20 cm, it is not a drama.