Hi

I'm having difficulty in finding someone that is selling the 15 pin "VGA" Male to Female cable (as in the pic) that is used to parallel connect my inverters. They only sell the kit with the board and cables but not the cable alone.

I bought a VGA extension cable from Matrix Warehouse but it seems not to be working.....most probably because not all the pins are used for video and the inverter uses another configuration in order to communicate.

Does anyone know where I can find the correct cable or maybe what is the pins used in order for me to make up my own cable.

Regards

15 hours ago, Anton Roothman said:

Does anyone know where I can find the correct cable or maybe what is the pins used in order for me to make up my own cable.

I'm not aware of places to buy just the cables. As far as I know, the cables are just straight through, i.e. pin 1 to pin 1, pin 15 to pin 15 and so on.

I do hear of the parallel boards failing at times; I had one of my own take out a transistor due to nearby lightning. If you don't do electronic repairs, it might be worth buying a whole kit anyway. One of the old boards might be still working, so you can keep it as a spare.

Hi Coulomb

Thank for the advise.

I managed to find a very friendly guy at Mustek in Midrand and he gave me a cable free of charge.

My suspicion was correct. The one he supplied is as you mentioned direct pin to pin from 1 to 15 whereas the VGA cable has only 7 pins connected and the earth and I have tested many VGA extension cables...all having only the same 7 pins connected.

When I used the one supplied by Mustek, all was working fine.

My guess is that the parallel connection boards are using pins that is not connected in the VGA cables. At least I now know that Mustek stock of the correct cable.