vaporlips Posted July 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2015 What are your thoughts on de-soldering the USB, and extending it through wires? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basilray Posted July 6, 2015 Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 Considering it does data and individual cell balancing/monitoring, I wouldn't attempt it...But that doesn't answer your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 6, 2015 Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 Difficult. Not impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporlips Posted July 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 As far as I know, micro usb is five connections. De-solder and extend the five wires? If there's any tips you can think of, I'd love to hear. I'm not going to try this right away, but when a customers ultimatum is having the usb elsewhere or no sale, I may try it then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 6, 2015 Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 I would probably massacre a USB micro B extension rather than trying to run wires (appropriately twisted and shielded) individually to a connector. If it was me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporlips Posted July 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 Yeah. Just knowing that it's important to have those wires properly shielded is good knowledge for me. One of these might help on the other end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaotikgood Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 John said:I would probably massacre a USB micro B extension... Nailed it John. This was my thinking. A section of preassembled and properly shielded power and data cable is invaluable when compared to building your own. This was originally my question (thanks David) as I was always a little confused by limiting the only transition input jack in the whole setup slaved to one place. I truly believe that remote mounting it, or at least the option to would open up quite a few great options. I just got registered and will start chimming in more and more as we go along Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaotikgood Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 Are the solder landings supporting the preinstalled micro-B female top mount or through mount? I'm assuming top mount, but had a hard time being certain when just comparing the different pictures I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 The USB pads are surface mount. The mechanical mounts for the connector are through hole slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaotikgood Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 John said:The USB pads are surface mount. The mechanical mounts for the connector are through hole slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaotikgood Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Stupid phone. So the mech mounts are solely mechanical eyelets, no runs to anytwhwere else on the board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 They're USB shield and run through an R/C filter to ground, but they're primarily mechanical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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