Weber has those DC jacks everyone wants!

[RDV]

$1.00 each plus shipping(a lot of shipping), but it's the ones that screw on from the outside.

RDV

[ExpAnonColin]

Can't find them.   :?

-Colin

[RDV]

https://weberspeakerscom.secure.powweb.com/store/miscord.htm
About half-way down. I just ordered some, and didn't know that was what they would be. Just in time for my power supply I'm gonna build someday when I've got some time off. I work all the time now.

RDV

[Fret Wire]

No pic, are you sure it's the SDC-522?
http://www.shokaifareast.com/Products/Connectors/DC%20Power%20Jacks/sdc-522.htm

[RDV]

You can see them in the pic at the top of the page, and I have some that I ordered. I don't know that they are that brand but they look just like them. He should give me some free cause of the avalanche this will cause.

RDV

[Fret Wire]

Maybe, but I got a large quantity in a week ago. I had a run made for me, it took three months. I haven't posted them for sale yet, because I'm trying to decide if I should get washers to include with them. Mine are the SDC-522 that Wizard uses on his nice boxes.

[RDV]

Congratulations.

These just have the body & outside nut.

RDV

[Fret Wire]

This time of year I normally get involved with other projects, so I wasn't in a big rush. I'll have no problem getting rid of them. I just like to do things right, or not at all.

I was thinking about including washers so they wouldn't scratch anybody's paint work installing/uninstalling them. Every pot, jack, and switch should have this if it attaches from the outside. Personally, I put too much labor into my finishes to have them marred by nut gouges.

I've also been toying with including plastic washers for the inside, so whoever gets them has the option of spacing the jack inward so it doesn't pertrude out so much.

I should have them out soon, at probably the same price with much cheaper shipping.

[RDV]

That's cool, they do need a plastic washer on a painted box, or a plastic nut at least. Weber gouges but good for shipping on small orders, but I'm fishing for suppliers and have been trying everyone out. You'll get some orders from me too. I'm not sure this isn't a knock-off of those jacks, I was gonna scan one for everybody but my scanner seems to have been invaded by some of this savage spyware I've been blessed with lately, so I'm downloading a new driver as we speak. I'll scan and post some pics if I can get it working 2nite.

RDV

[Fret Wire]

http://www.shokaifareast.com/Products/Connectors/DC%20Power%20Jacks/sdc-522.htm

Sorry for the bad pics, that was a quickie. I was thinking plated metal washers (looks good) for the outside, since they won't turn, just the nut. And plastic washers for the inside, since they'd only be for spacers if you wanted to move the jack inward.

I originally ordered these only because I hate the regular kind so bad because you can't solder them until they're installed. When these are gone, I may do another order.

When you think about it, pots and input/output jacks should all come with toothed star washers on the inside to make sure they don't loosen. When they do loosen, it usually pulls a wire loose when it turns. Things like that piss me off. Aron's 3PDT's come with lock washers though. Leave it to us pee-on's to include the proper hardware.

[RDV]

The weber stuff. I finally got my printer/scanner/copier reinstalled. I wish I'd known, I wouldn't have ordered these, but I only got 5 so you'll definitely hear from me!

RDV

[Fret Wire]

No problem, I've got 1000. I'll also have some bright clear green LED's (5mm), and glass case 1N270 Ge's real cheap. I hate constantly ordering components, so when I find a large quantity, I grab em'. Time to thin out the stock, so to speak.

I'm glad I'll be slowing down this fall. When you have someone manufacture you jacks because you don't like the popular model, it's time to mellow out. Last week I was thinking about wah enclosures. :roll:

[MartyMart]

Hi Guys,
I just bought a couple of dozen, which have a small "neck" on the outside and the thread/plastic screw on the inside.
They are a 12mm hole size, whats the difference/benefit of an outside screw ?
Is it more space in the box ?  as these seem to look "neat"

Marty.

[puretube]

1.you don`t have to desolder the wires, when taking box apart...
2. you can solder the wires on, before mounting into box...

[moritz]

Hi Guys,
I just bought a couple of dozen, which have a small "neck" on the outside and the thread/plastic screw on the inside.
They are a 12mm hole size, whats the difference/benefit of an outside screw ?
Is it more space in the box ?  as these seem to look "neat"

Marty.

Marty,
The advantage to having the threaded screw on the outside is that you can wire up the guts of your pedal to the jack and then install the entire thing in your enclosure (ie: from the inside of the enclosure). With the "nut on the inside" jacks which you were talking about, you have to install the jacks first and then solder the connective wires to the lugs later.

Personally, i agree with you though... i think this type looks neat.

[MartyMart]

DUH  !! ( use Homer simpson voice here! )

Yes of course, makes it the same as Jacks/DPDT switch/Pots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .bummer :cry:

I'd better not need to "fiddle" ( "adjust" in tech terms ) with the circuit after fitting it then.

But it does look "Trick"  i have to say  

Marty.

[cd]

I prefer the "protude out style".  It's even MORE trick if you use a little screw on cover for it, so you can market "keeps out liquids and other crap" from polluting the DC jack.

[siaoguitar]

Hi, back here in Singapore, i can't find this weber type dc jack, i can find 2.1mm jacks, but i don't think it is batt-eliminating type(auto batt cut-off),
so can i by-wire together with my battery snap to my pedal pcbs?

[RDV]

Hi, back here in Singapore, i can't find this weber type dc jack, i can find 2.1mm jacks, but i don't think it is batt-eliminating type(auto batt cut-off),
so can i by-wire together with my battery snap to my pedal pcbs?

Only two solder tabs?
A good way to do that is to use a battery snap to wire a jack in. Then you can unsnap it and put a battery in there if need be.

RDV

[siaoguitar]

Hi RDV, my jack looks like these

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/guitarsiao/detail?.dir=ba3c&.dnm=9f56.jpg
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/guitarsiao/detail?.dir=ba3c&.dnm=b778.jpg

So am i rite to wire it together with my battery snap wire to the 3pdt switch ?