Bi-Colour LED PatchCables for visualising voltage in Eurorack
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ProducerTools LED PatchCables · Source: ProducerTools
ProducerTools LED PatchCables · Source: ProducerTools
ProducerTools LED PatchCables · Source: ProducerTools
These natty cable jacks glow red for positive and green for negative polarity. Pretty and very useful in visualising voltages.
LED Eurorack Patchcables
All right so they are just patch cables but hey these ones light up! It’s an idea that’ been knocking around the Eurorack community for quite some time and turns up in cables from various sources. They look great and add some useful visual indication to what your signal is doing.
The problem is that in order to pass current through the LED you need to syphon off a bit of voltage from the signal. This means that the voltage that comes out of the end is not the same as that which went in the front. It’s not a big deal for most modulation purposes but would be bad for signals that require precision such as pitch as 1v/Oct.
ProducerTools.net say that they spent a lot of time working in the circuit for these cables and even had to design their own LED. They claim that there is “no measurable interference” in the signal. Can this be true? It seems unlikely but they appear to be confident that you won’t notice any drop in signal.
They are certainly a lot of fun.
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These bi-colour LED patchcables cost €19.90 for a pack of 5 with black or transparent cables of 50cm in length. They are taking preorders now and hope ship in a week or two.
More information
- ProducerTools website.
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3 responses to “Bi-Colour LED PatchCables for visualising voltage in Eurorack”
Wf? Complete miss for color blind folks. Pick white and blue. Sheesh.
Quite a small proportion of the Eurorack community ‘I guess’ but possibly good feedback for the developers. Probably not that much of a production change to introduce a range suitable for the colour blind community but they’d need to assess the market first before developing something which might not actually sell.
Why do you have to talk like an arrogant self-important arse hole?
I’m pretty sure the developers weren’t sitting there like “ you know what?, let’s rile up the colour blind community with our colour choices!!”
You never know, the developers are probably really nice people and could be horrified they unknowingly made that omission. (Probably as none of them are colour blind or don’t know anyone that is) and will endeavour to change it.
Or now, if that is the case. You being the only colour blind Person they know could turn around and say “fuck that guy” and in one shitty terrible attitude riddled message you’ve managed to make them now not want to help colour blind people like you?
Honestly you and this attitude is Whats singlehandedly ruining this world. Just because you have a specific problem and because your ego is clearly out of control think everyone should change their plans to cater to you and the few.