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Exclamation How to fix pins onto a 3-pin PWM cable?

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?

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Re: How to fix pins onto a 3-pin PWM cable?

Watch the video here:

http://www.hansenhobbies.com/
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Re: How to fix pins onto a 3-pin PWM cable?

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)
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Re: How to fix pins onto a 3-pin PWM cable?

in a pinch one could use thin solid wire... it is a kludge but it works.
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Re: How to fix pins onto a 3-pin PWM cable?

If time is short, you can cut another cable with a male end and solder the wires together in the middle.
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Re: How to fix pins onto a 3-pin PWM cable?

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!
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Re: How to fix pins onto a 3-pin PWM cable?

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.
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