Fitting the 5-pin DIN socket (PC-AT keyboard type)

The 5-pin din socket is mounted on a small PCB with some passive components and a male plug for attaching to the EZKey-XS via the supplied 4-way cable. (It is usual for the cable, DIN socket and EZKey-XS to be supplied already connected up). Your tower almost certainly will come with a suitable knock out for fitting this socket (16mm diameter hole with 2 x 4mm mounting holes at 11mm offset).

By removing the 4-way cable from the DIN socket you can pass the din socket through the 16mm hole from the front, so the sockets flange is visible from the outside of the tower. This gives a neater appearance than the alternative of fixing the socket inside the tower, although both methods are just as good from a functional point of view. The DIN socket is held in place by 2 x M3x6 bolts and nuts supplied with your tower case.

Fitting the EZKey-XS to an A4000

The procedure is exactly the same as fitting to an A1200 (above) except that the EZKey-XS fits on top of U350 which is neat the parallel port and adjacent to the PSU in the desktop A4000. The body of the EZKey-XS actually covers U300 (see picture). As the A4000 desktop is not able to use an ATX PSU this the cable which would normally fit on this connector has been left off in the picture.

Please note that we haven�t been able to test physical compatibility with the A4000T due to the rarity of these machines. Electrically though the EZKey-XS is 100% compatible with A4000T.

Pictues show (top to bottom):

EZKey-XS 5-pin DIN connector with 4-way flylead to EZKey-XS main board

5-pin DIN socket through the mounting hole of a tower backpanel

The EZKey-XS fitted inside an A4000 desktop computer