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Written by Vlad Gavrilchik   
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
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By the time the newly born power socket is on the way. No good soldering directly to the pins, find the suitable plug, solder it first and then insert into socket. The power cable is rather long - near a half of K2000's length to the card reader. But no moving parts in the card reader give the OK status for that. If you hesitate, give it a thicker wire.

kurzweil k2000 card reader fig.10

10. So, the card reader powering problem is mostly solved  

And we have to connect the reader itself. Direct soldering here to save space, Do not forget to clean the pins before soldering. Wire it, isolate and bend tails a little, so the housing of k2000 won't touch it. Do not be mistaken by the number of wires - the extra ones I used to connect the cooler (I'll tell you next time 'bout it :) ).

kurzweil k2000 card reader fig.11

11.The power is connected to the reader, sorry for blurry pic.

OK, all time-taking procecces are almost over. We have to connect the SCSI to finish it. Here's the internal SCSI. Do not forget to terminate the ends if you have many devices in the chain.  We have only two of them, Kurzweil K2000 is the SCSI device by itself and has an internal terminator (if you need more info on SCSI, check this for example).

kurzweil k2000 card reader fig.12

12. One of the last moves. We connect the SCSI and.



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