FS: TRON MCR Interconnect Cables

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Professionally made MCR interconnect cable kit for TRON boards.
Includes cables, metal spacers & all hardware. Have a few
kits left for $29ea. shipped. See pics for details. PM if interested.
 

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Do they work for any MCR game or just for Tron?

What does the cable 'head' look like? 1 row or 2 rows? 24 pins or 25?
 
Do they work for any MCR game or just for Tron?

What does the cable 'head' look like? 1 row or 2 rows? 24 pins or 25?

The cables are for 1 row x 24 pins. TRON uses 5 sets but I am not sure about
other MCR games. You will need to look at your boards to make sure.
 
nice work on those.

If I didn't just buy the bob roberts version, those look much easier to work with. Especially for tapper which has way less room to work with than tron.


these would be outstanding for tapper.
 
Professionally made MCR interconnect cable kit for TRON boards.

Can you provide more info on the "professionally made" part of your statement? They look great, but I'm just wondering about that. Did you contract someone to make you some? If so, wouldn't they be willing to make you as many as you wanted?
 
My thoughts exactly. If you're going to have new cables made why the hell would you choose IDC?

Gee let me think, how about this, every cable used in any computer or electronic
device are either crimped or IDC. Ribbon cables, terminals, ALL cables.
I guess they do that because they are unreliable.
 
Gee let me think, how about this, every cable used in any computer or electronic
device are either crimped or IDC. Ribbon cables, terminals, ALL cables.
I guess they do that because they are unreliable.

Ribbon cables have strain reliefs and backplates to keep the wires from popping out...

Those have neither. you can see just from the pics that the wires are under strain.

I also like how you're pretending those are 1x24 connectors when they're quite obviously 3x1x8.

Give me SCSIs any day.


People use IDC because they're CHEAP and just good enough to out-last a warranty.
 
Here's some good reading for you:

http://www.marvin3m.com/connect/

An excerpt:

[SIZE=-1]"...the advantage to IDC connectors is that assembly time is dramatically reduced, decreases cost. This is why most pinball manufacturers used this (crappy!) style of connector termination originally. IDC connectos are not used for reliability, they are used to decrease assembly cost. Hence as a replacement, this style connector should be avoided."[/SIZE]
 
Great... some pinball guy is now an expert on connectors.

I totally disagree.


Here's some good reading for you:

http://www.marvin3m.com/connect/

An excerpt:

[SIZE=-1]"...the advantage to IDC connectors is that assembly time is dramatically reduced, decreases cost. This is why most pinball manufacturers used this (crappy!) style of connector termination originally. IDC connectos are not used for reliability, they are used to decrease assembly cost. Hence as a replacement, this style connector should be avoided."[/SIZE]
 
Cables

If you can do it so much better then you make them.
I will guarantee these to outlast anything you've ever built.
(and I've seen some of your work)


Ribbon cables have strain reliefs and backplates to keep the wires from popping out...

Those have neither. you can see just from the pics that the wires are under strain.

I also like how you're pretending those are 1x24 connectors when they're quite obviously 3x1x8.

Give me SCSIs any day.


People use IDC because they're CHEAP and just good enough to out-last a warranty.
 
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