Soldering connectors

This page explains how you solder the connectors

  1. Take a male and a female connector out of its packaging and connect them togheter.

  2. Connector connected male - female
    Male back side of connector
  3. On the bottom of the male connector you will find the numbers of the contacts. Find the number one and mark the female part of the connector with a marker.

  4. Contact number 1 is marked with blue marker

  5. Now you can solder a 20cm long wire into each of the contacts on the connector 1 - Power (red wire) 2 - GND (black wire) 3 - SCL (yellow wire) or analog (blue wire from ADC board) if its for the analog sensor 4 - SDA (green wire) or not connected if its for the analog sensor

  6. Female backside connector.
    View from the bottom of the male connector
  7. When you are done with three I2C connector and one analog connector go onto drilling holes and screwing the connectors into the box.

  8. inside box.
  9. Now you can do some cable management by collecting all the Power and GND wires togheter and each pair of the SCL and SDA wires togheter with zipties.

inside box with wires soldered to connectors

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