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6. Making a DAQ cable

tmh edited this page Apr 9, 2021 · 5 revisions

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Parts list

Strip the wires.

Cut the core to make it shorter then the shield.

Put a heat-shrink on the core wire (1.5/0.75 and 1.0/0.5) and solder them together.

Strip a standard multi-core wire ~7 cm and solder it nearby the insulation of the SMA patch cable.

Tie the rest of the wire around the shield.

Solder them together at some points. Put ~5 cm (1.0/0.5) of heat-shrink on to the cable.

And another ~2 cm of (1.5/0.75) heat-shrink. And ~ 3 cm of (3.2/1.6)/

Put some extra heat-shrink on to the cable (1.5/0.75 and 1.0/0.5). Solder the male part of the Mill-max connector to the other end of the cable.

Glue it with a bit of epoxy and shrink the heat-shrink.