7000DLE MKII - 9-pin connector pinout

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7000DLE MKII - 9-pin connector pinout

Postby W1JA » Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:24 pm

I have a new-to-me black-face 7000DLE MKII (thanks Don and Chas!), and am trying to identify the correct pins on the 9-pin rear panel connector.

Thetis (Setup > General tab > OC Control sub-tab > HF sub-sub-tab) shows 7 control bits, labeled 1 through 7.

I found a silver-face 7000DLE MKII manual on the internet. It is dated 26 Feb 2019. On its p.17, it labels the OC pins OC0 through OC6, and maps them to connector pins 9 through 3, respectively. I could assume that OC0/pin 9 means Thetis 1, through to OC6/pin 3 means Thetis 7. You know what they say about assuming, so I must ask: do 0-6 map directly to 1-7 as I have stated above?

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Re: 7000DLE MKII - 9-pin connector pinout

Postby w-u-2-o » Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:10 pm

The pinout is here:

https://apache-labs.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2343

You can program the pins to work however you like in Setup > General > ANAN Control, and "Ext Control" must be enabled on that screen.

Each output is basically an open drain FET switch to ground when asserted, and floating (open) when not asserted. You will need to provide pull up resistors on each output. Because of the way this works logic is reversed, i.e. wherever you put an "X" in the control table will generate a "0" (FET turned on and output grounded), wherever a box is unchecked it will generate a "1" (FET turned off and output floating, so pulled up to whatever voltage you are pulling it up to through the pull up resistor).

Lots of good info here: https://community.apache-labs.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=4507&p=23384
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Re: 7000DLE MKII - 9-pin connector pinout

Postby W1JA » Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:39 pm

Thank you Scott.
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Re: 7000DLE MKII - 9-pin connector pinout

Postby w-u-2-o » Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:54 pm

Just out of curiosity what do you plan to use those outputs for?

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