Hi. I welcome you to my second forum post as part of my participation in On The Line Design Challenge. In this post, I will describe how I prepared Omega HX94 humidity + temperature sensor to enable experimenting with it on breadboard.
Preparing Cable
First step is preparing cable for connecting sensor. It could be definitely done in hacky way, but I tried less hacky way and actually used connector which was bundled in package and mounted it to ethernet cable.
Process is explained in printed manual which come with the sensor:
First step is separating connector by unscrewing tiny screw on side:
Then you can solder, wires to four contacts inside connector.
As you can see, I did not forget about heatshrink, however since contact are large, I need to heat them a lot and heartstring sooner then I needed.
Next step is pulling other part of connector from other side of cable:
Then you can push parts together and fit back small screw.
Another end I made breadboard friendly:
Across whole process, it is good idea to check for open connections and short circuits, but I was lucky this time. This is a result. Now my sensor is breadboarded:
It is sensor with analog output, so next time, I will try it with power supply and multimeter. These two are enough to obtain reading from it.
