JP1 Remotes

Well I should be honest up front I'm not sure if somebody else has "found" this or not yet I would be very suprised if no one else has found it. Anywho I was banging my head agianst the table trying to cut and IDE cable down to size and still have it work. And then there was the soldering of the tiny cables. I went tearing through my "junk drawer looking for something else and happened upon a 4 pin audio connector. anyone who has built a computer is very familiar with this little useless wire. It is for analog audio output from a cd rom drive to the audio card. we haven't actually needed the cable since windows 98 but everyone still puts one in the box. Conveniently enough it has the exact same pin spacing as the JP1 connector all you have to do is cut the wires superglue the two ends together and pick a side to ignore (since you basically have an 8 pin connector at that point) If you really don't like the last row you can pull the wires out and cut it off really easy. That's it DONE no guessing which wire goes where or "did i screw up the crimp on the ribbon cable" or what happened to me "Aww crap the superglue got in the hole and now it's stuck to the pins in the remote".

This concludes my useless contribution to the JP1 community.

MattBatt

My source is older pre PC computer gear that often uses two row versions of that connector, which are a little more robust.

another benifit over a chopped up EIDE cable is that the connector is longer and easier to grab out of my RCU810 but it works great.

mattbatt wrote:another benifit over a chopped up EIDE cable is that the connector is longer and easier to grab out of my RCU810 but it works great.

Well mine is made from an electronic coin mech routing plug and I found I had to bodge together two of them with a 6 pin dual header attached to an idc type plug as the newer URC-7555 and URC-7780 have small apertures and are keyed differently. See my links to photos in the HCS08 JP1.2 thread (p8)

Well mine is made from an electronic coin mech routing plug and I found I had to bodge together two of them with a 6 pin dual header attached to an idc type plug as the newer URC-7555 and URC-7780 have small apertures and are keyed differently. See my links to photos in the HCS08 JP1.2 thread (p8)

Hi don't want to hijack anyones post but do you have the URC-7780? I am really interested in this remote but aren't sure whether its JP1 or JP1.2 etc. Can you let me know. Thanks.

hagglelad wrote:

Well mine is made from an electronic coin mech routing plug and I found I had to bodge together two of them with a 6 pin dual header attached to an idc type plug as the newer URC-7555 and URC-7780 have small apertures and are keyed differently. See my links to photos in the HCS08 JP1.2 thread (p8)

Hi don't want to hijack anyones post but do you have the URC-7780? I am really interested in this remote but aren't sure whether its JP1 or JP1.2 etc. Can you let me know. Thanks.

Yes I do.
It's JP1.2 but the rdf isn't complete and needs some extensions added to rdf specs and IR.exe.

Sorry I'm totally new to this JPx business - what does this mean I could do with the URC-7780?

i bought 6 pin idc connectors localy ??? philmore #70-4206 $0.99 ea. uses ribbon cable