What can I do with this random medical equipment cable?

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I couldn't pass this up for $4 at a junk shop. I've got a bunch of old Tama Techstar drum synths and a Syndrum, but I don't think this cable is going to magically shoot 5 volts into the machine to trigger them. Has anyone experimented with cables like these? The emergency phones in elevators use 1/4" jacks, for example.

https://www.advancedwireless.com/default.cfm?pid=1.9.7.2&productID=208

[bubzy]

i'd put a meter across the plug and see what happens, it may require a custom socket, im guessing that the plug shorts when you press the button, kinda a switch extenstion lead you could easily make a drum trigger if this is the case.

[Uncle Krunkus]

Yeah,
By the looks of it, it has to be low voltage, most likely switch extender. It's probably just line level lead. One conductor with a shield. Perfect piezo pickup lead to get a gate off a snare.

[PHOBoS]

I wonder if they had to break granny's fingers to get it out of her hand after she died,..

but yeah it's probably just a switch on a lead, which I probably would have bought too if I saw it .
what can you do with it ?,. whatever you come up with

[Danno Gee Ray]

how about a remote gate switch for an enveliope generator?

connect it to a flip flop / latch and use it for a start stop for a sequencer.

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