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Thought I'd share a little trick that I learned tonight. I was making an extension cable for a friend so that he can use is Ipod w/ SikDin in his car. Obviously I had no problems coming up with an acceptable male 3.5mm plug so that he could plug into the AUX jack but the cable mount 3.5mm jack was a different story. I tried the TecNec TN-MFS jack but it was too heavy to use for this application so I started rummaging through my parts box. I came across the mini jacks that Tangent specified for the PINT project (Mouser Part #161-7300-EX) and had an idea. Now if you're like me you've cooked a couple of Neutrik's NYS231B plugs by overheating them. If you're also like me you saved the nice aluminum sleeve that comes with these plugs. So, what happens when you combine that sleeve with panel mount mini jack? You get this!
Add a little heatshrink to provide a little strain relief and you get this:
Hope someone else can put this to good use. I've got another 3 of the Neutrik sleeves left so I think I'll try my hand at making something like the Ety P->S conversion cable.
Thought I'd share a little trick that I learned tonight. I was making an extension cable for a friend so that he can use is Ipod w/ SikDin in his car. Obviously I had no problems coming up with an acceptable male 3.5mm plug so that he could plug into the AUX jack but the cable mount 3.5mm jack was a different story. I tried the TecNec TN-MFS jack but it was too heavy to use for this application so I started rummaging through my parts box. I came across the mini jacks that Tangent specified for the PINT project (Mouser Part #161-7300-EX) and had an idea. Now if you're like me you've cooked a couple of Neutrik's NYS231B plugs by overheating them. If you're also like me you saved the nice aluminum sleeve that comes with these plugs. So, what happens when you combine that sleeve with panel mount mini jack? You get this!
*photo*
Add a little heatshrink to provide a little strain relief and you get this:
*photo
Hope someone else can put this to good use. I've got another 3 of the Neutrik sleeves left so I think I'll try my hand at making something like the Ety P->S conversion cable.
Brilliant! You've solved my troubles of looking for a reasonably sized female cable mounted mini. The parts cost of both the female jack and the Neutrik still come out to less than a Calrad mini connector.
Thanks for sharing that
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That's brilliant Nate, I have used one of those mini jacks as a female cable jack, but only used heatshrink to cover it and provide strain relief. Your's looks much nicer and better finished than mine. I'll definitely do one of those when I get back to Portugal. It is a shame that none of the good manufacturers offers good quality mini female jacks.
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Nice WBTs saynotopistons! Couldn't afford them this time around but I have a feeling I'm going to order the Nextgens soon.
Just finished these;
One is a bit longer than the other but I'm still pretty happy with them. I really like the stress relief screws on the locking connectors, no need for heatshrink!
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