Those little.dupont wires that come in these kits are horrible for this job.So, essentially, this (but I think I need thicker cables, given that they will carry up to 5A ? (max 5A x 5V = 25W)
How would you guys do that?
Strip a piece of default extension cable of it's isolation and wire that to the 5V GPIO pin?
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PS: The little cables that come with RPI and Arduino kits say AWG 26, so according to wikipedia gage 26 can handle 1.3A.
The cable to the floppy connecter that I used in the picture are AWG 20 and should handle 5A.
The cables that connect the PSU to the molex are AWG 18, so can handle 10A.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge )
So according to that, could maybe just take out two of the cables from the floppy connector and plug the floppy into GPIO 2 & 6, given that the pins have the right side. Then I wouldn't even need to soldier anything, but I of course would only have 1 GND and 1 5V connection.
You don't have to solder the wires to the header pins, but you should get good quality and thicker ones if you're going to hooked them up that way.
Statistics: Posted by memjr — Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:57 am
