Gilderfluke&Co Z-Brick - Manual (Page 10)

On the Back of the Z-Brick:
In all animation systems made by Gilderfluke & Company all digital out-
put cabling is through what we call ‘J-6’ standard output cables. These are
forty wire cables which are made up of four identical eight bit wide ‘chan-
nels’. A J-6 cable is often split up into four individual channels. As each
channel also includes a common power supply and ground wire, each ‘1/4
J-6’ cable is made up of ten wires, and can be used to control eight individ-
ual ‘digital’ (off/on) devices, or one eight bit wide ‘analog’ device.
All Gilderfluke & Co. digital outputs are open collector switches to
ground, and all inputs are opto isolated. Flyback diodes are included in the
outputs for driving inductive loads:
typical output typical input
fuse
flyback
diode
supply supply
To simplify wiring to any MACs animation system, the connectors
used on the J-6 cables are what are called ‘insulation displacement con-
nectors’. These simply snap on to an entire cable, automatically ‘displacing’
the wire insulation and making contact with the wires within. This means
that an entire 40 wire cable can be terminated in seconds. All connectors
are polarized, to keep them from being plugged in backwards. Although
there are tools made specifically for installing these connectors, the tool we
find works best is a small bench vise.
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