Hi everyone,
I am working with a Nintendo 64 cable. I would like to break out the three internal wires, so I can use them on a breadboard or Arduino. They are quite fine and break easily. Can anyone suggest a good way of doing this? Check out this image.
Don't see too much problem - wire them to a header using a fine soldering iron, and protect with heatshrink...
regards
Allan
Once you solder those wires, there is a stress point where the solder stops - at that point, the copper strands can bend at a sharp angle, and will tend to fatigue and fail during even gentle handling.
I glue the wires to the board near (but not covering) where they're soldered with hot-glue. It's still at least an order of magnitude more prone to failure than an inline splice IME. The heatshrink tube stiffens the wire around the splice, so it won't tend to flex right at the weak point.
An even better approach would be to put a connector on the end. You can get pre-wired connectors on ebay (I don't recommend crimping your own, it's a real pain) - I'd just splice one of those on, and then I could disconnect it when I wanted to,
DrAzzy:
An even better approach would be to put a connector on the end. You can get pre-wired connectors on ebay (I don't recommend crimping your own, it's a real pain) - I'd just splice one of those on, and then I could disconnect it when I wanted to,
Could you provide more information, please? What should I search for on eBay?
4 pin connector
(or however many pins you want). You'll get a lot of styles - look at them and you can search specifically for terms found on ones that look most like what you want to find more like that. I like the JST-XH-2.5 ones for wire to board, but there are other options that might make more sense for your application.
