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Electronics => Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff => Topic started by: rfdes on September 06, 2023, 01:05:51 pm
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I am hoping someone might have knowledge for a acquiring a right angle - through hole PCI connector. I am attempting to 'squeeze' a PCI card into an old computer which will not support a vertical PCI card. Height is very limited and the only solution is to use one of these connectors. I found a photo of one, so they must have existed at one time in the past. Since PCI technology has been retired, I am sure they are no longer manufactured but thought that maybe there is someone who knows where I might find a NOS sample. I've been searching for some time but it is [attachimg=1]difficult to weed out the PCIe from the PCI connectors.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Not sure where to get the connector you need but there were some circuit card with connector solutions. It simply looks like a PCI card that is only 1 inch high and plugs in to the PCI slot and then has a normal PCI connector soldered 'through hole' which of course provides the 90 degrees you are looking for. I have seen this weird arrangement where they stack up to 4 cards laying horizontally above each other. I think IBM and Dell used this trick.
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Could you use an adapter?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=right+angle+pci+adapter&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=images
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I am hoping someone might have knowledge for a acquiring a right angle - through hole PCI connector. I am attempting to 'squeeze' a PCI card into an old computer which will not support a vertical PCI card. Height is very limited and the only solution is to use one of these connectors. I found a photo of one, so they must have existed at one time in the past. Since PCI technology has been retired, I am sure they are no longer manufactured but thought that maybe there is someone who knows where I might find a NOS sample. I've been searching for some time but it is (Attachment Link) difficult to weed out the PCIe from the PCI connectors.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Really? It took me 2 minutes to find them on Digi-Key; one is in stock: https://www.digikey.ch/en/products/detail/sullins-connector-solutions/RBB60DHAS-S1962/927344 (https://www.digikey.ch/en/products/detail/sullins-connector-solutions/RBB60DHAS-S1962/927344)
Here's the whole results, to give you other part numbers to look at: https://www.digikey.ch/short/bv9wprcb (https://www.digikey.ch/short/bv9wprcb)
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I am hoping someone might have knowledge for a acquiring a right angle - through hole PCI connector. I am attempting to 'squeeze' a PCI card into an old computer which will not support a vertical PCI card. Height is very limited and the only solution is to use one of these connectors. I found a photo of one, so they must have existed at one time in the past. Since PCI technology has been retired, I am sure they are no longer manufactured but thought that maybe there is someone who knows where I might find a NOS sample. I've been searching for some time but it is (Attachment Link) difficult to weed out the PCIe from the PCI connectors.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Really? It took me 2 minutes to find them on Digi-Key; one is in stock: https://www.digikey.ch/en/products/detail/sullins-connector-solutions/RBB60DHAS-S1962/927344 (https://www.digikey.ch/en/products/detail/sullins-connector-solutions/RBB60DHAS-S1962/927344)
2 minutes, huh? Took me 30 seconds! ;D
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How embarrassing! It is no fun being the fool!!! I don't know how I missed these but I certainly did.
I appreciate you leading me to the 'water'.
Take care -
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How embarrassing! It is no fun being the fool!!! I don't know how I missed these but I certainly did.
I appreciate you leading me to the 'water'.
Take care -
You just have to get used to the filters on the various component sites. Search for "PCI connector", select the 32-bit versions (all voltages) and then choose "through hole, right angle" or similar. Don't search for a specific item, say "Right angle PCI connector", unless you're certain of the wording.
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2 minutes, huh? Took me 30 seconds! ;D
I need to figure out which browser extension is causing Digikey’s parametric search to slow to a crawl. :p
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You just have to get used to the filters on the various component sites. Search for "PCI connector", select the 32-bit versions (all voltages) and then choose "through hole, right angle" or similar. Don't search for a specific item, say "Right angle PCI connector", unless you're certain of the wording.
Quoted for truth.
It is well worth your time to deeply familiarize yourself with your preferred component vendor’s parametric search and product categories. Free text search is rarely as successful.
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2 minutes, huh? Took me 30 seconds! ;D
I need to figure out which browser extension is causing Digikey’s parametric search to slow to a crawl. :p
Digikey seems rather tempermental. Some days it's fast and other days is painfully slow. Today it was fast.
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2 minutes, huh? Took me 30 seconds! ;D
I need to figure out which browser extension is causing Digikey’s parametric search to slow to a crawl. :p
Digikey seems rather tempermental. Some days it's fast and other days is painfully slow. Today it was fast.
Maybe, but I know that in my case it’s due to browser extension(s).
Of course, I’d rather just the old, more compact view that was filtered server-side.
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I have a box full of those, some with even two sockets BUT unfortunately there here in the UK so not much use to you :(
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They're somewhat common on old 1U server computers, since obviously the card can't fit vertical, so there's a 90deg PCI to PCI adaptor that plugs into the motherboard and allows 1 horizontally mounted card.
2U servers can have them too, but they're often for double PCI slots into one slot on the MB using a custom connector. So they're not a useful source of PCI to PCI adaptors.