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Re: PWM Pin Crimps

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Originally Posted by agartner01 View Post
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/category/39. Everything you'll ever need.
Now you tell me! We went the Hansen Hobbies route and crimp all our wires. It works, if you're careful and very patient, but what a lot of work. Our electrical guy was a maestro with the tool, but few others mastered it. Many of the crimps deformed and were nigh impossible to insert. We may go this route with pre-crimped wire and inserting them into headers in the future.

Regular pwm cables are nice, but you can reduce possible errors and have a cleaner layout by making 1 x 8 or 2 x 8 cables to plug everything in at once on the analog, solenoid and digital sidecar, avoiding "one-off" errors and other troubles.
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