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Seeking someone to do some PCB soldering for me!

BlueJuice
BlueJuice 1 month ago

Hi all,

Hopefully this is the right place to ask this. 

I've got a small project on the go thats going to require a bit of soldering, initially it was going to be just removing some existing antennas from  two wifi adaptors and soldering on a 10cm length of coax with SMA connectors on the end (to allow me to mount wifi adaptors within an enclosure with external antennas.

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Basically removing the white wires seen above and replacing with coax.

However I'm now thinking id like to remove the USB A from these adaptors, solder the usb cable straight onto the board to keep thinks much smaller, and then solder the other end of the USB cables onto a small powered USB hub  (again with the USB A connectors removed to keep things small).

Plan was to get all the kit and do the soldering myself but to be honest theres a good chance i'll have a disaster and im not too sure how much soldering im likely to do in the future, so maybe best that I get someone who knows what they are doing on the case!

If there's anyone on here that can do this kind of stuff, I'd love to have a chat, willing to pay for the service.


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    0 Gough Lui 1 month ago

    That looks like a USB 3.0 A connector. I would advise against trying to solder wires if you want to maintain USB 3.0 SuperSpeed connectivity because it's very fiddly and very specific on the wires used due to impedance matching. If you're afraid of the connector falling out, you could solder the connector shells ...

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    0 Gough Lui 1 month ago

    That looks like a USB 3.0 A connector. I would advise against trying to solder wires if you want to maintain USB 3.0 SuperSpeed connectivity because it's very fiddly and very specific on the wires used due to impedance matching. If you're afraid of the connector falling out, you could solder the connector shells ...

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    0 BlueJuice 1 month ago in reply to Gough Lui

    Thanks for the reply, yes USB 3 but they dont use superspeed, in reality USB2 would be fine so perhaps use soldering the 4 USB 2 pins rather than all 9...

    The reason id like to lose the connector is the aim is to get them in a small housing. with multiple adaptors and a small usb hub, the usb connectos end up taking a fair bit of space up

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