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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware
Good analysis Owen - I think we'd best now give onewatt a chance to see if he can find any documentation to confirm what you've worked out.
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Yes, If he does find a copy of the rather-rare manual, then it would be very-useful to see what's inside that. Although as the Softy-2 was no longer available as a kit, plus supplied with PSU, then I wouldn't be surprised if they no longer gave you detailed info on the PSU connector etc.
- If only there was someone we could find who's got a Softy-2 PSU, as surprisingly it seems Softy-2's are now rarer than the original Softy-1.
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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware
With regard to DIN plug pin numbering, that has always been a little bit odd, it's as though they started off with 3-pin and then every time they added more pins, they retained the numbering and positioning of the already existing pins and inserted the additional ones 'in between'.
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The DIN pin-numbering system was intentional, with 3pin the 'base-standard' and more pins filling in the gaps so that the pin numbers wouldn't alter if you plugged a 3 pin one into a 5pin 180deg or 5pin into 7pin etc.
However, 4pin types and all the deliberately 270deg 360deg etc. wouldn't mate with these so were rather different