SiriusHardware
Veteran Member
The subject of rainbow coloured ribbon cable or 'Spectra-Strip' came up in another thread in this forum. One of the reasons I prefer it over grey cable is the fact that the colours used in rainbow cable correspond to the colours used in the resistor colour code, so the first wire is black=0, second wire brown=1, third wire red=2, fourth wire orange=3, and so on - this makes it very intuitive to use for wiring up 8-bit parallel connections (actually, ten-bit since the colours go up to white=9). I have just such an application in mind at the moment.
I already have some Spectra Strip with 0.1" spacing between the individual conductors - note that's the same spacing as the track strips on veroboard / stripboard, whereas 'common' ribbon cable has a pitch of 0.05" between conductors.
I need to find clamp-on 0.1" pitch single-inline female connectors to put on the ends of my spectra-strip so that a 20-way parallel connection can be carried from one PCB to another - the two PCBs will have 0.1" pitch single-inline male pin connectors mounted on the boards.
The problem with going looking for these things is knowing what to call them in order to narrow down the search. In days of searching, I have managed to find just about everything but what I'm looking for. Does anyone know where I could start looking, or at least, what the connectors I'm looking for are called? The closest in concept are the commonly available cable-mounting double-row IDC female connectors, but they are for 0.05" pitch cable and I don't want the connections in two rows, but in one single inline row of 0.1" spaced pins.
I already have some Spectra Strip with 0.1" spacing between the individual conductors - note that's the same spacing as the track strips on veroboard / stripboard, whereas 'common' ribbon cable has a pitch of 0.05" between conductors.
I need to find clamp-on 0.1" pitch single-inline female connectors to put on the ends of my spectra-strip so that a 20-way parallel connection can be carried from one PCB to another - the two PCBs will have 0.1" pitch single-inline male pin connectors mounted on the boards.
The problem with going looking for these things is knowing what to call them in order to narrow down the search. In days of searching, I have managed to find just about everything but what I'm looking for. Does anyone know where I could start looking, or at least, what the connectors I'm looking for are called? The closest in concept are the commonly available cable-mounting double-row IDC female connectors, but they are for 0.05" pitch cable and I don't want the connections in two rows, but in one single inline row of 0.1" spaced pins.