[Amps] Chinese DIN connectors

[Roger]

Ryan Foster wrote:
> The din connectors I got were pretty cheap, kind of hard to work with-- it
> was really easy to melt them when you are trying to solder wires in.  You
> can't really find any good ones out there though, so I would just order a
> few extras in case you melt one or two.
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> Besides the products being what you probably already expect being Chinese,
> they are a pretty decent company, and I will order from them again.  I don't
> remember if the dins were xtar, but at the time I got them, the ones I got
> were the only din connectors for whatever pins # I needed (for an ft-897 and
> ft-857, I can't recall how many pin those are, but they were mini-din.  I
> would imagine full size din would be no problem whatsoever.)
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For the 897D I purchased some Apple printer cables from Amazon (6' and 
8' IIRC). I think all three cables cost less than $9.00. I cut them to 
length and basically ended up with two out of each one.  The other end 
needed to go into a different size connector any way.  The cables were 
considerably cheaper than the connectors alone from Mouser. They are 
"mini-din" which takes some real hunting to find.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> --Ryan w8cya
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> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:41 AM, <K1SG at aol.com> wrote:
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>> I need to get some 7-16 DIN connectors, and most of what I'm seeing is
>> coming out of China. Does anyone have any experience with XTAR connectors,
>> or
>> with rfsupplier.com in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province China?
>>
>> Steve  Gilbert
>> K1SG
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