Does anyone know where we may be able to buy a USB that plugs into the back of this camera? The one that comes with it was damaged so we wanted to buy a new one and could not find it.
It’s a JST-ZH. We have not found a source for a direct replacement USB cable. Thanks to a suggestion from @Weldingrod1 we bought a kit with precrimped wires and were able to splice those onto the ends of some USB cables (we had extra USB-to-JST-PH cables, so we chopped those off and put on the JST-ZH instead). My suggestions:
- Go slow and work carefully, the wires are still tiny.
- Make the spliced-on wires as short as you can manage to work with (I think ours were about 1-1/4" or so).
- The insulation on the wires in the kit is so thin we were literally stripping it with fingernails instead of tools.
- Insulate each splice before you put the terminals in the housings, using small diameter heat shrink or a little piece of electrical tape. And slip on a larger piece of heat shrink to cover the whole assembly later.
- Be sure to assemble the terminals in the right sequence (match the existing).
- We added a little hot glue to support the wires where they enter the JST-ZH housing, twisted the wires gently, then did up the outside heat shrink.
We’ve successfully built a couple of these, will probably do a few more to have spares ready for competition.
BTW, we previously bought a kit of JST-ZH terminals and attempted to crimp our own. That was an abject failure, as none of our crimpers could come close to getting a good crimp on these miniscule terminals. I would not recommend this approach.
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