Where to get GOOD 40 Pin Socket for Pokey

[Syfo-Dyas]

I'm about to install another Dual Pokey board and would like to put it onto a socket instead of soldering it to the board (as advised by Metal an Sloopy), but the thing is that I can't seem to find my way around Mouser's web site:

 

http://www.mouser.com

 

I typed in a search for 40 Pin Socket, and the results are everything but what I am looking for. Many links came up for things that are not sockets, or if they have pins or places for pins, are not 40 in number.

 

So I'm wondering, am I using the search engine wrong. Is there some technical name for these that I should know? Or is there a another US site to order such things from?

[+GroovyBee]

Try mouser part number :-

 

855-D2840-21

 

Not sure if thats the same on your side of the pond.

[Syfo-Dyas]

Strange, the pic shows one with less than 40, but the description says that that is the one, or at least I can check a box for that option... confusing. I wonder what I would get if I don't check that box? One like the photo?

 

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Harwin/D2840-21/?qs=RC2ne4458IKrGuRuSAuqFw%3d%3d

 

 

 

So how do I know the part #'s of the parts I need cause I also need to order one for a SID chip as well.

 

Thank you btw!!!

Edited February 22, 2011 by Syfo-Dyas

[+orpheuswaking]

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[spookt]

Strange, the pic shows one with less than 40, but the description says that that is the one, or at least I can check a box for that option... confusing. I wonder what I would get if I don't check that box? One like the photo?

 

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Harwin/D2840-21/?qs=RC2ne4458IKrGuRuSAuqFw%3d%3d

 

 

 

So how do I know the part #'s of the parts I need cause I also need to order one for a SID chip as well.

 

Thank you btw!!!

 

This might be a good place to start You can select the number of positions (pins) from the selection box and hit apply filter to narrow your results. That should give you the right part number when you click on a product from the results.

Edited February 22, 2011 by spookt

[Syfo-Dyas]

Alright, thankx all!

[MEtalGuy66]

I hope you learned how to use a soldering iron since the last several boards you "upgraded" (trashed).. or should I use the popular modern buzzword "Syfo'd"

 

It also depends what dual pokey board you are using.. If you are using one of the boards from "Lothar of the Hill People" then it is not going to fit in that machined socket..

 

Lothar uses standard .035" square pin IDC headers instead of the machined headers that are actually designed to plug into sockets..

 

IDC headers will go into cheap sockets if you FORCE them (but it damages (permanently overcompresses) the contacts inside the socket and makes it useless for plugging anything else back into it.) IDC headers will NOT fit in a machined socket, no matter how much force you apply.. The pins are simply too big for the machined holes..

Edited February 25, 2011 by MEtalGuy66

[a8isa1]

I'm probably too late but Futurlec has good prices on machined sockets.

 

http://www.futurlec.com/SockIC.shtml

 

About half way down the page.

[MEtalGuy66]

This is the socket I use to accomadate a "Lotharized" plug-in board.

 

It's a 3m Textool Low profile ZIF socket, with all gold contacts. The holes are plenty large enough to accomadate the IDC pins, and when you turn the "screw" to the locked position, contacts close from both sides and clamp each pin.

 

The 3m part number is 240-4846-00-3303

 

I have plenty of them on hand, but I have not found anyone who stocks it..

 

[+poobah]

This is the socket I use to accomadate a "Lotharized" plug-in board.

 

It's a 3m Textool Low profile ZIF socket, with all gold contacts. The holes are plenty large enough to accomadate the IDC pins, and when you turn the "screw" to the locked position, contacts close from both sides and clamp each pin.

 

The 3m part number is 240-4846-00-3303

 

I have plenty of them on hand, but I have not found anyone who stocks it..

 

 

Either do that, or take off the IDC headers and solder on proper machine pins

[MEtalGuy66]

Either do that, or take off the IDC headers and solder on proper machine pins

 

Yeah.. The problem with that is that (not to bring up an old topic again) Lotharek's board falls apart.. It's a single sided board, and whatever process is used to laminate the copper layer to the pcb material barely withstands 500 degrees.. The pads literally start disintegrating and falling off the board with any attempt at "desoldering".. To be fair, Im not speaking about ALL of Lotherek's boards here, but the stereo pokey board, in particular (the original one he made with the green single-sided board)..

 

I have seen various other boards he has made since than, which use decent PCBs..

Edited February 25, 2011 by MEtalGuy66