Ouuffff,now I’m stumped.
With 8 wires I can imagine that there must be 2 plus right,2 minus right,2 plus left and 2 minus left or am I wrong?
Or do they mean 8 strands on a 28awg cable?
Never bothered with that and mostly avoided it because they are not shielded and are susceptible to it.
In that respect I am more of the old school who prefers to use one cable for plus and one cable for minus.
You can do the least wrong.
Spontaneously I would have said unscrew the Pentacon connector and see how the seller soldered it. And connect the ends in exactly the same way to the plug for the Aeon.
That would also work and would probably be the easiest.
It would only be important to make one connector after the other to keep the overview.
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I got all the parts now and spend the whole day just to fail…
I just can’t solder a 4.4mm connector and melted the plastic almost completly.
When looking at the special DCA connector it’s even more impossible because you can’t unscrew them and have to work inside this small metal tube.
Hehe,
Yeah, I’m on it too.
Yes, the Pentacon plug is really poor.
I have to make the plug larger in diameter so that I can get both cables through.
Then I should be able to solder it onto the Pentacon.
I’ve already tried it with silver solder, but the cable won’t hold with normal solder.
The Dca plug can be unscrewed,
Hold it by the 2nd edge, and then unscrew the inside of the outer edge where the 4 pins are with a pair of pointed pliers in an anti-clockwise direction.
The rest should be easy with a 3 hand soldering pin 1 and 2.
I would have had the cable ready today if I had had time to extend the diameter.
I am looking for a better connector though.
I have seen that most of them need to be stripped with heat shrink tubing or insulating tape so that there is no short circuit or anything like that if the cable does come loose.
And you don’t have much space to solder, so it’s a bit of a waiting game.
I’m going to send the Hirose connectors back and keep the cable for future projects when I have the patience and the nerves again to DIY a cable.
At least the cable looks ok for my skills
Hello,
Finished my cable.
The pentacon plug was a bit of a pain, but it worked.
A little tip from me, set up the length of the cable roughly as you want it before you solder it and start at the bottom then upwards or from left to right depending on how you see it.
It made things a lot easier for me compared to yesterday when I started from right to left.
Use normal solder, I tried silver but failed.
On the Aeon connector, however, it worked again without any problems.
The cable is now 75 cm long instead of the original 2 metres, which is considerably shorter.
I have made the length from the plug to the splitter 20 cm, which is personally more comfortable and less likely to get caught or tangled.
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when soldering delicate components, add solder to the wire first. put the wire with small solder blob on end to point where you want to solder. then add heat back to it in small dabs with iron and get it to slow melt off of it.
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I have to admit that it is a bit tricky to solder the Pentacon plug and also the first time I have soldered a Pentacon.
You don’t have as much space as with the 6.3 mm jack.
The problem is that the cable does not hold on the round surface even if you have pinned it beforehand.
I would have found flat spots more helpful.
If I have to solder a Pentacon connector again, I’ll try filing a small surface beforehand, which should make it a little easier to tin before I finish soldering the rest.
It might also be better to use silver solder.
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I used similar tricks but still fucked up. The cables somehow touched each other that both left channels would’ve shorted out. I tried to fix it but the connector got so hot that it melted the plastic and became unusable.
I might try it again in the future.
BTW, did you keep the insulation on or did you use just the wire? Because they look pretty thick
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Ah okay yes that is bitter.
I stripped a maximum of 2 mm of insulation from the end of the cable and tried to use as little solder as possible.
The best way to do this is with a wire stripper, but you have to be careful not to damage the wires if you use a cutter.
I didn’t use a splitter on my cable, it’s a nuisance when you’re lying down and feel it on your chest.
I like to use heat shrink tubing to separate and hold the braid.
I also used another one further down because I couldn’t get the cable into the Pentacon plug with the cable sheath.
I had to separate the paracord cover again 2-3 cm before the end of the cable.
And the paracord always swells up so badly when you cut it off that I simply pulled a heat shrink tube over it as a kind of closure.
It makes the whole thing a bit stiffer at the bottom but also more stable.
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