Date   : Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:37:05 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Econet over UTP ?

2009/7/5 Phil Blundell <philb@...>:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 16:06 +0100, michael.firth@... wrote:
>> One thought I had for an 'easy Econet' kit was to make up PCBs that
>> had 2 5-pin DIN sockets and 2 RJ45 sockets, and then any size of
>> Econet could be made up by stringing those together with standard CAT5
>> cables.
>
> Having run out of DIN T-pieces and not being able to find anywhere to
> buy more, I've been thinking about acting on Michael's suggestion and
> building some PCBs along these lines. ?Would anybody else be interested
> in buying some?
>
> I guess they will cost something around ?7 each for a small batch,
> though obviously the price will go down if the number of units goes up.
> You'd get the option to have termination circuitry onboard as well.
>

I'd probably go for a few ... One request though - add pads for
push-down terminals as well as RJ45 ports, as I've got loads of
infrastructure cable, but few long flyleads, so would probably want to
crimp them together..  Oh, and size them to fit some cheap readilly
available box... :-)

Way back when, I just mounted DINs on the front of little ABS boxes
and soldered the cables to them .. (I did the same for the 'phone
line, using a different DIN connector, so I could connect up the
modem.  This was before BT did sockets as standard, and the official
option was to pay a fortune for those barrel connector sockets.)

Rob