[volt-nuts] Fluke 5200A extender board.

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

Hi Ken,
 
I don't know if it helps but there's a 43/86 edge connector offered  here 
for 14USD, (12USD for 5+)......
 
https://www.surplussales.com/ComputerAccess/con_edge.html
 
Single and double sided  PCBs with 0.1 inch spaced strips were quite  
common at one time as part of the Veroboard range, some with gold plated edge  
connectors and some quite large, and it's possible these too might turn up as  
surplus. Not ideal for taking the double sided connectors but easy enough 
to  bodge, albeit a bit time consuming.
 
I thought I had some of the larger boards amongst my old prototyping  stock 
but can only find 32 way single sided at the moment so the others  seem to 
have gone already.
 
Regards
 
Nigel
GM8PZR
 
 
 
In a message dated 28/08/2014 07:47:53 GMT Daylight Time,  
kgoodhew at iinet.net.au writes:

Hi,
The pin spacing on the card edge connectors is  0.1" (2.54 mm) and is a 
43/86 dual row socket.
I know what the extender  looks like as I found one on ebay several months 
ago that had already sold for  $50 (damm it!!) and I have been looking ever 
since, but it had a picture of  it.
It is a double sided pcb board that plugs into the female connector  that 
is mounted vertically in the instrument and then rises up above the top  of 
the instrument case where there is a female socket mounted horizontally so  
in effect the board now sits horizontally above the instrument whereas  
normally it sits vertically in the instrument.
That way you have access to  the board to take measurements, something you 
cannot do when the boards are in  the instrument due to the close spacing of 
the various boards.
As the 43/86 pin card edge connectors appear unobtainable I have  sourced a 
50/100 pin female connector that I can make do with, but I need  either a 
43/86 pin male card edge connector (which are also unobtainable) to  make up 
an extender using cables as you have done, so the only option appears  to be 
to make up a double sided pcb board with pads spaced at 0.1" centres on  
both sides and then either use it to terminate the cables to the female socket 
 , or probably better make the pcb the same as the original extender and 
just  use my 100 pin socket on that.
That is why I was hoping someone may be able  to photo copy the pcb board 
if they have an extender they do not want to  sell.
Thanks,
Ken Goodhew.



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