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arrou.keys
30-01-2012, 20:20
Can someone tell (or show) how to fix pins onto a 3-pin PWM cable? It's the thin cable that's red, black, and white, with a black piece with 3 small pins on the end (used for VEX Robotics).

We have only one side with pins, but need the other side to have pins, as well, but we don't know how to put the pins in.

Do you have to take the end-piece apart, or are you supposed to somehow force the pins in? :confused:

Thanks!

Jim Wilks
30-01-2012, 20:34
Watch the video here:

http://www.hansenhobbies.com/

Zembas
30-01-2012, 20:53
You'll need to crimp on the male connectors and rehouse them, otherwise you'd need to buy the cable that way.

You can purchase a kit for work on PWM from Hansen Hobbies. (See above post)

ratdude747
30-01-2012, 21:36
in a pinch one could use thin solid wire... it is a kludge but it works.

DonRotolo
30-01-2012, 21:40
If time is short, you can cut another cable with a male end and solder the wires together in the middle.

arrou.keys
04-02-2012, 10:37
I just nudged the broken pin out with a Wago tool, solder a new one onto the wire, and pushed it back in!

Thanks for the replies!

Nathan4567a
05-02-2012, 12:51
Go to your local electronics store and buy a strip of header pins. Be sure to buy the kind with the plastic spacer in the center of the pins. It should look like the one in the attached file. You don't need to worry about crimping. After you buy the pins, simply stick them in the female side of the connector and you are done. It is very easy and passes the current perfectly.