Hiya KOMA!
I was referred to ya'll by a forum post when I was looking at trying to see if a standard for case to case interconnects existed and attempting to come up with one that might be a good starting point. My design used 4-pin XLRs. The power sources would have a female XLR and the power destinations a male. I was pondering unregulated DC and using linear PSUs to bring the voltages down to +- 12V (and optionally +5V but I kinda ignored that for now since it seems rather rare these days) or using standard +/- 12V and being mindful of cable distance and things due to voltage drop.
That's just what I came up with but then I saw ya'll have what appears to be a Molex style solution. My question was around if you would be willing to share the pinout and design with me and perhaps other folks in an effort to try and get a case to case (and power to case) interconnect standard?
I'm a small boutique case maker which I guess kinda makes us competitors but mine aren't nearly as nice as yours and I'm over in the US so I think we comfortably sit in different market segments perhaps! As a user of Eurorack though, the lack of modular cases has bothered me (I see yours are expandable which is fantastic!). Being able to start with a small enclosure and power supply, then extend to other enclosures (without having to get rid of the old one) and then upgrade the power solution as needed seems to me to be the spirit of modular yet I haven't really seen that? I think there's only one case maker that has any sort of case to case power interconnect (forgive me I don't remember the name, but it's one of the metal case makers).
Anyways just curious as to your thoughts! Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask. I couldn't find a direct contact us link to an email and thought this was better than hitting ya'll up on Instagram.
I was referred to ya'll by a forum post when I was looking at trying to see if a standard for case to case interconnects existed and attempting to come up with one that might be a good starting point. My design used 4-pin XLRs. The power sources would have a female XLR and the power destinations a male. I was pondering unregulated DC and using linear PSUs to bring the voltages down to +- 12V (and optionally +5V but I kinda ignored that for now since it seems rather rare these days) or using standard +/- 12V and being mindful of cable distance and things due to voltage drop.
That's just what I came up with but then I saw ya'll have what appears to be a Molex style solution. My question was around if you would be willing to share the pinout and design with me and perhaps other folks in an effort to try and get a case to case (and power to case) interconnect standard?
I'm a small boutique case maker which I guess kinda makes us competitors but mine aren't nearly as nice as yours and I'm over in the US so I think we comfortably sit in different market segments perhaps! As a user of Eurorack though, the lack of modular cases has bothered me (I see yours are expandable which is fantastic!). Being able to start with a small enclosure and power supply, then extend to other enclosures (without having to get rid of the old one) and then upgrade the power solution as needed seems to me to be the spirit of modular yet I haven't really seen that? I think there's only one case maker that has any sort of case to case power interconnect (forgive me I don't remember the name, but it's one of the metal case makers).
Anyways just curious as to your thoughts! Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask. I couldn't find a direct contact us link to an email and thought this was better than hitting ya'll up on Instagram.
