DG5-2/DPLEX adventures

joshyfishy22

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Hello everyone! About a couple of weeks ago I was checking ebay for the 4th time that day and came across a listing for 2 DG5-2/DPLEX boards. I immediately knew that I had to buy them since I have the ability to run a 2 pipe DPLEX cascade in my g-brick and knowing the rarity of these boards I'll probably never have this opportunity again.


The main problem is I don’t have the special cables that they need to communicate to each other. They use the same style plug as the 1600sw and VBOB but have 40 pins. The users guide for the dplex board never references a part number for the cable and only calls it the LVDS cable. But some searching iv found that 018-0792-001 is the correct part number for the “cable assy DPLEX/NCLOPS”


My goal with these is to fully document everything related to Hyperpipes, Reality Monsters, and “DPLEX”. Also to get a fully running cascade up. If anyone has any info on this please let me know. Anything will be helpful!

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