Eurorack ribbon cable question

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So I have quite a bit of semi modular gear and finally got my hands on a very reasonably priced rainmaker, so I guess I finally caved with holding off on eurorack. While I’m looking for the right case to put it all together, I got a cheap behringer rack mount to house the rainmaker and another module. Now I was wondering:

The rack mount comes with 2 ribbon cables for power, but it seems as if I can directly plug in the two modules into the ports that are supposed to connect to the ribbon cables.:thinking: This would be nice since the back and bottom of the rack mount are open and it would be less cable-clutter. Is this safe/normal use? I searched around but haven’t been able to find the answer.

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Yeah, that will be fine as all the cables do is extend the power, so nearer to the power supply the better.

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Thx :pray:t2: I expected as much, but better be safe than sorry :joy:

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Definitely, certainly don’t want to damage something like the beautiful rainmaker :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Just be aware of the gotchas with eurorack power and ribbon cables in particular:

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Yeah, I’m aware :slight_smile: watched that Mylar video a while back. But thx :pray:t2: for the warning. Like I said, better safe than sorry :joy:

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