Re: You can get the 2.5mm plug at R.S.
[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Greg Hill <ghill@lab.tech.bhs.davis.k12.ut.us> wrote:
>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!)
That's funny. It worked when I tried said adapter w/ my headphones.
I'm one of the aligator clip junkies, though :-> (mine is a later
model. Maybe that makes a diffrence.)
>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..
Is the calc to calc cable just a standard cable, or does it have
built in diodes and such(it has a BIG end on the plug.) I just got my
ti-85, so I'm kinda new at this.
>--
>Greg Hill
>http://braves.bhs.davis.k12.ut.us/
>ghill@lab.tech.bhs.davis.k12.ut.us
>greg_hill@email.state.ut.us
References: