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Taiwan HPDB 26-pin D-sub Connector. Sijhih City Trading Company, Manufacturer, Exporter

Oh by the way for any one that wants to make your own digilink cables, here is the pin out. One needs to get a cisco cable off ebay. If one gets the DB60 to DB60 cable, one can make 2 cables with the purchase on one. They run around 20-30 bucks per cable. Electro Sonic carries the HD50 scis connector (about 10 - 15 bucks) one needs to put on the end of the cable when you cut it. The HD50 connector is one that you don't need to solder, it has push on lugs for the wire, you don't even need to strip the wire.

The pins are as follows. I will put the HD50 pin first then the DB60 pin it goes to. n/c means not connected.

1 to 16, 2 to 17, 3 to 14, 4 to 12, 5 to 10, 6 to 8, 7 to 6, 8 to 4, 9 to 2, 10 n/c, 11 to 30, 12 n/c, 13 to 29, 14 n/c, 15 n/c, 16 to 60, 17 to 58, 18 to 56, 19 to 54, 20 to 52, 21 to 50, 22 to 48, 23 to 46, 24 to 20, 25 to 26, 26 to 15, 27 to 44, 28 to 13, 29 to 11, 30 to 9, 31 to 7, 32 to 5, 33 to 3, 34 to 1, 35 n/c, 36 to 31, 37 n/c, 38 to 32, 39 n/c, 40 n/c, 41 to 59, 42 to 57, 43 to 55, 44 to 53, 45 to 51, 46 to 49, 47 to 47, 48 to 45, 49 to 41, 50 to 35.

Shorty,

Pin configuration is usually printed in small numbers beside the pins themselves. If you look at the connector end, looking at the pins, you should see a number beside the first pin and the last pin on each row of pins.

In the case of the HD50, pin 1 is top row right hand side, pin 25 is top row left hand side. This row is pins 1 - 25.

The second row is pin 26 bottom left hand side, and pin 50 is bottow right hand side. This row is pins 26-50.

As for the DB60, same thing, looking at the pins, pin 1 is top left hand side, pin 15 is top right hand side, this being pins 1-15.

The second row, pin 16 is right hand side, pin 30 is left hand side. This row is pins 16-30.

The third row, pin 31 is left hand side, pin 45 is right hand side. This row is pins 31-45.

The fourth row, pin 46 is right hand side, and pin 60 is left hand side. This row is pins 46-60.

Please note that I am calling the top of the connector the long side of the D.

It doesn't really matter which type of cable you get, you are only going to use one end, you will just have to do some continuity testing with a multi-meter to find out which wire goes to which pin. This is something you should do anyway because when cables are made, the manufacture might have used different colors of inner wires on that run of cables.

Don't worry about destroying the cable end of the DB60, if you are careful, you can peel away the molding and just use the pins and pin chassis, then you just get a house for an DB15 or DB9 connector. They work just fine.

Here is the pin out for the Y cable.

Stating with the Female DB60 that would go to unit 1. The second number is the male DB60 that would go to the core card. You can just put a HD50 connector in the place of the female DB60, but you will have to figure out that pin configuration from the previous pinout I posted before.

I will put the female DB60 pin number first followed be the male DB60. I will do the unit 1 female, and then I will do the unit 2 female. nc means not connected.

Female A.

1 to 1, 2 to 2, 3 to 3, 4 to 4, 5 to 5, 6 to 6, 7 nc, 8 nc, 9 to 9, 10 to 10, 11 nc, 12 nc, 13 to 13, 14 to 14, 15 to 15, 16 to 16, 17 to 17, 18 nc, 19 nc, 20 to 20, 21 nc, 22 nc, 23 nc, 24 nc, 25 cn, 26 to 26, 27 nc, 28 nc, 29 nc, 30 to 30, 31 to 31, 32 nc, 33 nc, 34 nc, 35 to 35, 36 nc, 37 nc, 38 nc, 39 nc, 40 nc, 41 to 41, 42 nc, 43 nc, 44 to 44, 45 to 45, 46 to 46, 47 nc, 48, nc, 49 to 49, 50 to 50, 51 nc, 52 nc, 53 to 53, 54 to 54, 55 to 55, 56 to 56, 57 to 57, 58 to 58, 59 to 59, 60 to 60.

Female B.

1 to 39, 2 to 22, 3 to 34, 4 to 27, 5 to 33, 6 to 28, 7 nc, 8 nc, 9 to 7, 10 to 8, 11 nc, 12 nc, 13 to 13, 14 to 14, 15 to 42, 16 to 19, 17 to 17, 18 nc, 19 nc, 20 to 24, 21 nc, 22 nc, 23 nc, 24 nc, 25 nc, 26 to 25, 27 nc, 28 nc, 29 nc, 30 to 11, 31 to 12, 32 nc, 33 nc, 34 nc, 35 to 36, 36 nc, 37 nc, 38 nc, 39 nc, 40 nc, 41 to 37, 42 nc, 43 nc, 44 to 44, 45 to 47, 46 to 48, 47 nc, 48 nc, 49 to 51, 50 to 52, 51 nc, 52 nc, 53 to 38, 54 to 23, 55 to 43, 56 to 18, 57 to 52, 58 to 29, 59 to 40, 60 to 21.

Yes some of the pins a doubled up.

To make things easier, I suggest that you take these pin outs, and put them on a chart.