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Re: How should we wire the photoswitchs?

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Originally Posted by keericks View Post
I was wondering if you could gang all three photo switches (brown & blue wires) onto a single 12V PDB (red/black) using either a terminal block or solder splice.
That should work fine.

If you're feeling adventurous, you can even use the three wires of a single PWM extension cable, one from each of the sensors, and plug the connector sideways onto three adjacent DIO signal pins.