Easy to make KVL to Saber cable???

Cowboy · Post by **Cowboy** » Wed May 02, 2007 11:16 am

I'm curious if anyone has a quick write up on making this cable? As I understand it, you need a MX speaker mic and Saber speaker mic connector, some pin removal/placement and splicing...

Any ideas?

Thanks!

jnglmassiv · Post by **jnglmassiv** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:44 pm

Sure it's possible. There's a pinout and diagram here:
http://www.batlabs.com/kvl.html

I've never done it but I've heard that the pin removal/replacement isn't as easy as one might first suspect.

techie · Post by **techie** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:46 pm

The problem is that the pings on the right column (3/6/9/12) are reversed from the other two columns in the shell. The mounting tabs are reversed.
The speaker mics only have pins in the left and center columns.

Swapping pins around in the left columns is easy, it's trying to swap left/center with right that is the problem.

You run into the same problem when trying to build a programming cable from a speaker-mic cable.

Cowboy · Post by **Cowboy** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:48 pm

So the easy solution is a KVL to Saber or KVL to Hirose with Hirose adaptor cable then?

Hmm... I found a couple brand new KVL to Hirose cables on eBay for around 80... ouch...