Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.

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Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.

Cajun 'Net Crusier wrote:
>
> Matthew Twomey <mtwomey@clc.cc.il.us> wrote in article
> <55o7ak$ele@news.clc.cc.il.us>...
> > I have posted this again and again. Lately I've heard people using aligator
> > clicps to attach their link cables! People you can get a 2.5mm plus at
Radio
> > Shack - ther don't have this exactly but they *do* have a 1/8 inch to
> > 2.5mm stereo plug. You get this and make your link with an 1/8 plug
instead.
> > This way you are all set to plug headphones into the TI as well when you
want
> > to play Pong or any other game with sound!
> I have already tried this and it doesn't work. The connectors are spaced
> slightly differently on the real TI-xx cable. It ends up shorting two of
> them together.
>
> Just call TI and buy a unit to unit cable for $6 and make two link cables
> (Sell one!)






Call Mouser Electronics (www.mouser.com) and get a 72" cable, 2.5mm
stereo plug on one end, tinned wires on the other end. And it'll cost
you $3. Beats TI for price and length. :) They've probably also got a
2.5mm to 1/8" adapter..












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