How – short of individually soldering all of the connections - do you make all of the wiring connections to the PM-42’s 44pin connector? Are there female spade connectors small enough to tie into these?
If there are such animals…I couldn’t find any around my town!
I thought it would be an extremely daunting task, but after not being able to find connectors that would work (the pins are also very close together) I soldered mine and it really wasn’t as tough of a job as I thought it would be!
Just remember to “tin” everything first, use a liquid rosin flux and just enough heat to flow the solder.
I made my jumper wires about an inch and a half long that was more than enough wire to solder all the connections. There is no female end for that connector. That is a female connector and it is designed to either be wired to indicidual wires or have a PC board soldered inbetwen the pins. The task of soldering them all together is not bad and goes fast but do as Colvinbackshop said with the flux and tinning.
The easiest thing to do is make a mounting panel using a piece of wood and a terminal strip. If you look in the files section of the Digitrax Group on Yahoo there are some pictures of this. About the biggest wire the edge connector terminals wil handle is a #18, which is usually inadequate as a DCC bus wire. But a short distance of this won;t hurt anything - wire to a terminal strip and then you can attach whatever wire is needed tot he other side.
–Randy
I wired from the 42 pin to terminal strips. Mounted all on plywood then ran wires from the track to the terminal strip after mounting the unit to the layout.
Tom
What on earth is a PM-42?
BB
It’s the Digitrax power manager product, used to set up power districts and/or autoreverse sections. It controls 4 sections. Sort of like the Tony’s PowerShield-4.
–Randy