PC3000 Termonal connections with jumper wires

[lcoughey]

There are times when the drive specific adapters break or we just don't have enough for all the cases we are working on. Rather than order in new adapters, we just use jumper wires where we remove the plastic connector on one end and replace with shrink wrap so as to make them easier to connect to extremely tight terminal pins on the hard drives. Here are a few photos of the most common drives. I'll add more as I remember to take a photo when we encounter them.

Modified Jumper Wires

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PC USB Terminal with Jumper Wires

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Seagate 3.5" PATA

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Seagate 3.5" SATA

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Western Digital 3.5" SATA

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[pclab]

Nicely done and very good idea!