9 pin D plug

Anyone knows of anywhere that sells 9 pin D vertical sockets/plugs. I`m sure they exist - if not WHY NOT????? :-)

It will save me from needing to use a diferent plug.

Thanks for reading!

Because it is probably easier to use a riser board, for the very limited number of applications needing this!...

You don't say how may are needed. Most of the plug manufacturers will do custom runs. I had a 9way socket made this way for an application a few years ago (Toby in the UK did it), and even for the fairly small run involved, it was only a couple of pence more than an off the shelf item. In my case it was the limited length of rear panel that forced the choice. The alternative was a simple flying lead, or a riser, but these were more expensive than having the plug made. At the time I found no suppliers offering these 'off the shelf'.

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Agreed Tim... Obviously the OP doesn't know how to use Google or he would have found any number of responses.

Clue:- search for d-sub pcb mount straight

Here's one manufacturer's product range

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I'll leave it to OP to find others and where to get them.

Here's a better question- do any have PCB mounting solderable prongs?

Paul Burke

I don't think the poster is asking for D mount straight (as common as muck), but is asking for right angle D-mount, which sit vertical to the board surface, raher than horizontal. I have used these (as I said in an earlier post, we had them custom made). As for why they are not done normally, think how you are going to bring out the pins, for five pins one above the other, and bring them down to the board without shorting...

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Thats it, i am looking for right angle conections, I have googled plenty, this is a last resort!

Bloody hell, you did say "vertical" and that means "straight" where I come from. Right angled means 90 degrees to the plane of the pcb and that is "horizontal" not "straight". Why didn't you say right angled in the first place? They are even more common than the one I linked to.

Instead of putting "straight" in the search criteria put "right angled" or "r/a".

How about a panel mount DB9 connector -> IDC ribbon cable. Then you just need 0.100" header on the board.

You are missing the point. The two common types, are 'right angle', with the two mounting screws ending up on a line parallel to the board surface, and 'vertical', with the plug facing up from the board. He wants 'right angle', but with the two mounting screws ending up on a line running vertically from the board. The commonest way to get this effect is to use a 'riser' PCB, with the vertical plugs mounted on this.

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As I said, I had some custom made in the past, in order to get a DB plug out of a case, where other things were in the way. However at the time there were none that I could find in existence.

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It`s wierd, i`m sure there is a market for this item, i want a few and i`m sure others have required it also. Can`t understand why no one has latched on to this idea?

None there the style wanted.

Or there.

Or there.

Not one of which is the product being looked for. Look at the ASCII drawing I posted, and then show a site with one.

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That is a good idea, not very convinient but will do the job thought!

When you take all the junk out of that, you're left with:

If you use hyphens to make phrases instead of quotation marks, A Google Groups search will actually find it again without having to look for (e.g.) 22PCB.

Well it seems that Roger is the ONLY one apart from the OP who knew exactly what the connector was supposed to look like. I don't know how he worked it out but nevertheless.....

Now, as for the OP's statement that he "is sure there is a market for this item" is concerned, I can safely say that it has never been sufficient demand (and nowadays even less so) in all my 40 odd years of experience with these connectors for any manufacturer to set up the specialised plant to produce it. The pin lead-outs, terminal footprint and the physical mounting arrangement would be horrendous to design and manufacture, even for a relatively small number of pins such as the D-9. When the the D connector family also includes 15, 25, 37 and

50 pin connectors this type of arrangement would be extremely difficult to produce economically.

In the small number of cases where a connector arrangement of this type has been required then the vertical sub-board with right-angled connector has been the norm, as suggested by Roger.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ross Herbert wrote (in ) about '9 pin D plug', on Sat, 5 Mar 2005:

The description was clear enough for me, but I couldn't say where to get them, so I didn't respond.

It doesn't seem too difficult or costly for D-9; four wire leads on one side and five on the other. Lead spacing controlled, to ease insertion, by a pierced flat insulator positioned to lie just above the plane of the PC board when the connector is mounted.

This would probably be the optimum solution for more than 9 contacts.

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