Re: [M100] Help diagnosing issue with T200 connected to Tandy DVI

2024-09-25 Thread Tom Blum
Thanks Brian. Understood. I'm going to build-up a connector as you suggest. In the meantime, after a closer look, I am seeing that some pins in the male header that connects to the T200 bus are indented -- not bent but not long enough to ensure a connection with the female system bus connector o

Re: [M100] Help diagnosing issue with T200 connected to Tandy DVI

2024-09-25 Thread Gregory McGill
I ran out of your cables so having these made off the design on the page you made On Wed, Sep 25, 2024, 6:25 PM Brian K. White wrote: > Let's see the rest of that dvi cable. > > If you bought a cable from arcadeshopper, you should not need to do that > even-to-odd crossing. > > You would need to

Re: [M100] Help diagnosing issue with T200 connected to Tandy DVI

2024-09-25 Thread Brian K. White
Yeah, looking closer at the pic, I think you've double twisted. It looks like 2 male solder pin headers back to back, so far so good. And it looks like one connector is polarity-notch-up (in the 200), and one down (on the cable, you can see the 3 little flux wash bumps facing up), also so far s

Re: [M100] Help diagnosing issue with T200 connected to Tandy DVI

2024-09-25 Thread Brian K. White
Let's see the rest of that dvi cable. If you bought a cable from arcadeshopper, you should not need to do that even-to-odd crossing. You would need to twist the wires only if the rest of the cable was all standard IDC connectors. The cables I made for arcadeshopper all include a part that d