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Hardware support => General topics => Topic started by: gregcope on November 11, 2018, 11:51:19 AM

Title: Cable / IO
Post by: gregcope on November 11, 2018, 11:51:19 AM
Hi All,

Any advice on how to attach Cables? 

The largest current on one cable is 600ma @5v.  The rest are just switches and LEDs.  With all the GNDs I have 11 cables

Screw terminals take up a bit of board space
JST seem to be smaller, but with very small cables (that also have to be attached to the peripherals)
Molex seem large

Presently I am using screw terminals - about to move to pluggable ones.

What do others favour?
Title: Re: Cable / IO
Post by: Felix on November 12, 2018, 08:00:05 AM
I love those green thumb-press terminals used in the CurrentRanger (https://lowpowerlab.com/guide/currentranger/). They are very easy and quick to use and are rated at 16A.
Otherwise you're left with soldering if you want to avoid headers/terminals of any kind.