Hey Everyone,
I am trying to deploy my small project. It will be housed in an outdoor weather proof cabinet but I am worried that the connections to the temperature sensor via the breadboard are too delicate.
Would really appreciate it if anyone has thoughts on how the breadboard and connections can be made more robust to the Arduino headers?
Kevin
There are several choices. I often use screw terminals and boot lace pins but that requires a special crimper. A small solderable breadboard with or without female/male headers. This requires soldering.
Worst case remove a pair of wires from the breadboard that are a through path and cut off the ends and solder (put on heat shrink first)
But what you might want is to go from breadboard to perfboard or protoboard and when all changes are done, make a PCB.
Discussion on that subject.
For less than permanent joins, some day I may try twisting leads together and using heatshrink tube to keep them tight.
I have some of those, but if they are the same size, the wires will be like a fly on an elephant. As a minimum doubling the wires and maybe tinning or do a shoe lace first.
A.k.a perfboard. Just (almost) as good as a PCB. If you wanna screw it down to the case you can drill holes in the corners.
Hey Guys,
Appreciate the responses. Newbie here. Perfboard sounds like a plan.
Also, the outdoor cabinet it will be in has a PoE switch... I am thinking of using the below to power the Aruino via the usb-c connection. Any thoughts?
Kevin
I don't think that is a PoE connector. You need a PoE switch connected to your router then a PoE cable that goes from the PoE switch to the PoE shield. I use that for my Astro camera on the balcony.
What you show is an Ethernet to USB-C connector. I have the Apple version just in case same as a dozen other pricy adaptors all being just in case and never get used.
Consider getting a processor that does not have the pins soldered in then just solder your wired directly to the board in place of the pins. When finished simply put it in a small container and pot it.
You need an active PoE splitter. The picture show a USB to Ethernet adapter, nothing PoE about it.
