[hpsdr] [ATLAS] - proposed physical bus/pcb design 03March2006

Sun Mar 5 02:12:49 PST 2006

Second take

If a solution to the 20 - 24 pin is not quick and simple just stay with
current design. It accommodates the slick little pico supply and is KISS.
All the powers we need are on the 20 pin and Phil has allowed for the load
resistor etc. 20 pin supplies will be around for a long time. Probably a lot
longer than the life cycle of the Atlas. Future rev of the Atlas when 24 pin
supplies are far more prevalent than 20 pin is probably a better route.

24 pin to 20 pin adapter cables are readily available.

My second 2 cents. And vote. Really nice design Phil! Build it and we will
come!

Thanks
Eric

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Subject: Re: [hpsdr] [ATLAS] - proposed physical bus/pcb design 03March2006

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Phil

Your design is so wonderfully flexible, in all ways, it seems a shame that
we should not be able to accommodate the two current standard connectors in
some way, without having to hack the power supply. That would probably give
us 10 years, looking at the cycle for the 20 pin connector, change to 24.

On board jumpers? Chris' suggestion of 2 connector provision? 

Thanks
Eric

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All,

I appreciate that we have been through this design loop before but my vote
is 
that we don't use either connector. A simple Molex socket with just the
number 
of pins that we need will future-proof the project for the day when the ATX 
connectors change again.  Making an adapter/chopping leads is easy.  

I appreciate that with the ATX connector we can remotely switch the PSU
on/off 
but hooking into those two pins is easy.

Just my 2c worth.

73's  Phil...VK6APH 

Quoting Philip Covington <p.covington at gmail.com>:

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> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks for the link to the spec and the data sheet.
> 
> Ken N9VV also sent me a link to the ATX 2.2 spec which describes the
> 24 pin connector.
> 
> I guess the big question now is whether we should stick with the 20
> pin connector, go with the 24 pin connector, or put both on the board?
> 
> I am in the process of adding the daisy chain bus requested by Lyle so
> I can change or modify the connector arrangement also.  With 3 lines
> on the XBUS and 3 lines on the YBUS used for the daisy chain, that
> leaves us with an XBUS of 24 lines and a YBUS of 24 lines.   I did not
> like the connector reference designator progression either so I have
> fixed that.
> 
> 73 de Phil N8VB
> 
> 
> On 3/4/06, Christopher T. Day <CTDay at lbl.gov> wrote:
> > Phil,
> >
> > My attached message gives the Mouser part number I found for the 24-pin
> > version. I found it by looking for a match to what is specified for the
> > plug in the ATX V2.2 Motherboard spec
> > <http://www.formfactors.org/developer/specs/atx2_2.pdf>. Here is the
> > data sheet for the header on the Mouser site:
> > <http://www.molex.com/pdm_docs/sd/039281243_sd.pdf>. Is this enough
> > info?
> >
> > Unfortunately, I think this header is not pin compatible with the 20-pin
> > version; the latch is in the wrong place and the pin across from #8 is
> > NC instead of -5VDC as specified for the 20-pin connector in the ATX
> > v2.1 spec
> > <http://www.formfactors.org/developer/specs/atx2_1.pdf>
> > I now have the picoPSU supply which is not modifiable to 24-pins, so I'd
> > be happy with the Atlas board as is.
> >
> >
> >         Chris
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philip Covington [mailto:p.covington at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 3:22 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [hpsdr] [ATLAS] - proposed physical bus/pcb design
> > 03March2006
> >
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> > On 3/4/06, Eric Ellison <ecellison at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Phil
> > >
> > > Fantastic. Many great ideas here. I really like the inclusion of all
> > > voltages for experimenters! We had talked about using the new 24 pin
> > ATX
> > > connector which is apparently compatible with the current 20 pin
> > connector.
> > > This would allow for the future of the newer power supplies included
> > with
> > > future computer enclosures.
> > >
> > > Are you doing this in Kicad? If so can we get a holt of the project
> > files?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Eric
> >
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > I could not find a specification or reliable source of information
> > concerning the pin out of the 24 pin connector mentioned.  Anyone?
> >
> > 73 de Phil C
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