36 pin Centronics Connectors

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Where can I buy these ?!

I've searched high and low at electronics stores all around town and I
cannot find any bare 36 pin centronics connectors. I did find some
female connectors and I bought them, but I'm having trouble finding
male connectors. Most places don't stock these connectors anymore, but
I see printer cables and 36 pin to USB adapters being made still today
so I KNOW that these connectors are still being made.

Anyone got any good leads to where I can get some of these connectors
online ?

Thanks

 

[Tam/WB2TT]

Where can I buy these ?!

I've searched high and low at electronics stores all around town and I
cannot find any bare 36 pin centronics connectors. I did find some
female connectors and I bought them, but I'm having trouble finding
male connectors. Most places don't stock these connectors anymore, but
I see printer cables and 36 pin to USB adapters being made still today
so I KNOW that these connectors are still being made.

Anyone got any good leads to where I can get some of these connectors
online ?

Thanks

I bought some of each kind from Digikey about 5 years ago. First, unless
somebody does it for you, you need to go to a connector manufacturer's web
site an come up with a part number. I would try Amphenol first. Centronics
was the user, not the manufacturer.

Tam

 

[John Popelish]

Where can I buy these ?!

I've searched high and low at electronics stores all around town and I
cannot find any bare 36 pin centronics connectors. I did find some
female connectors and I bought them, but I'm having trouble finding
male connectors. Most places don't stock these connectors anymore, but
I see printer cables and 36 pin to USB adapters being made still today
so I KNOW that these connectors are still being made.

Anyone got any good leads to where I can get some of these connectors
online ?

Thanks

Go to Digikey and search [connector] then select the
[Parallel Interface / Centronics] choice.
All on this page:
http://dkc3.digikey.com/PDF/T072/P0257.pdf

 

[Bob]

I bought some of each kind from Digikey about 5 years ago. First, unless
somebody does it for you, you need to go to a connector manufacturer's web
site an come up with a part number. I would try Amphenol first. Centronics
was the user, not the manufacturer.

Tam

I believe that AMP's name for these is "Champ". The 50 pin version is common
in telephone equipment and the 36 pin was used for some printers (like
Centronics). IIRC, a smaller one is used for test equipment that are
equipped with the GPIB bus.

Bob

 

[Rich Grise]

Where can I buy these ?!

I've searched high and low at electronics stores all around town and I
cannot find any bare 36 pin centronics connectors. I did find some
female connectors and I bought them, but I'm having trouble finding
male connectors. Most places don't stock these connectors anymore, but
I see printer cables and 36 pin to USB adapters being made still today
so I KNOW that these connectors are still being made.

Anyone got any good leads to where I can get some of these connectors
online ?

Maybe you should learn to use the other side of google to save yourself
a trip "high and low at electronics stores all around town":
http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?Ref=449581&Row=24824&Site=US

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Mark Zenier]

Where can I buy these ?!

I've searched high and low at electronics stores all around town and I
cannot find any bare 36 pin centronics connectors. I did find some
female connectors and I bought them, but I'm having trouble finding
male connectors. Most places don't stock these connectors anymore, but
I see printer cables and 36 pin to USB adapters being made still today
so I KNOW that these connectors are still being made.

Anyone got any good leads to where I can get some of these connectors
online ?

Centronics is just a long gone printer manufacturer. The connector
originally was an Amphenol 57 Series Micro-Ribbon connector. (I dug
out an old Anadex printer manual and they called out a 57-30360 plug).
Those were/are solder-cup (you really don't want to go there) or PCB
tail style connectors. Other compatible Amphenol parts were the 157
Micro-pierce (IDC wire) and 850-57 (IDC flat cable) series. Or a
zillion other manufacturers. I usually hacked around with T&B Ansley
flat cable connectors, because one squish of the cable beats the heck
out of soldering 36 wires into the back of the connector.


Mark Zenier [email protected]
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[Rich Grise]

...
Centronics is just a long gone printer manufacturer. The connector
originally was an Amphenol 57 Series Micro-Ribbon connector. (I dug
out an old Anadex printer manual and they called out a 57-30360 plug).
Those were/are solder-cup (you really don't want to go there) or PCB
tail style connectors.

....

Didn't the HP-IP also use these or similar (maybe 50-pin vs 36?)

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

...

Didn't the HP-IP also use these or similar (maybe 50-pin vs 36?)

^^^^^

HP-IB. duh.

 

[Mark Zenier]

^^^^^
HP-IB. duh.

Yes, 24 pin. (I actually paid a lot of money for a copy of IEEE-488
that I never used, until now). It names Micro-Ribbon from Amphenol
or Cinch, or Champ from AMP.

Mark Zenier [email protected]
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