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The Great Search: Floppy Disk Drive Power Connectors!

The Great Search: Floppy Disk Drive Power Connectors!

Adafruit Industries

January 4, 20229m 36s

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OK, so one challenge we've disk-covered (ha) doing floppy interfacing is that you need to really power them right. The power connector is a keyed 2.5mm pitch right angle PCB mount part (a Berg Connector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berg_connector). Let's find a connector on Digi-Key we can use in our design! See on Digi-Key at https://www.digikey.com/short/f0vp4zzh Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/