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.
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?
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.
Statistics: Posted by Bersaelor — Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:50 pm