¶ Electronics enclosure wiring basics
In General - Stablebots have a metal electronics enclosure with separated high and low voltage sections. This allows you to more easily maintain and organize your electronics enclosures and provide a safer experience.
¶ General Wiring Rules
- Follow a color scheme to prevent wiring mixups and errant routing. If you are consistent with colors, It makes it easy to spot when a wire is landed in the wrong connection!
- Use crimped connectors for all connections
- Ferrules for screw terminals https://amzn.to/3LGhZcc
- Ring or Spade connectors for power supply outlets and power inlets https://amzn.to/4cXFvNQ
- Proper crimps and connectors for all of your board connections - See our Wiki Page for crimping and crimpers!
- JST XH (Typical of BTT motherboards - 2.54mm pitch, rated to 85c)
- JST PH (On some toolboards and other smaller applications, 2mm pitch, rated to 85c)
- JST VH (On the new BTT Kraken Board, High-wattage outputs on the Duet 3 series)
- Microfit MF3 (Toolboard connections, distribution boards like Carabiner, Dumbboard, XOL board, etc)
- Wire ways are magic - If you can fit them in, they make things alot neater-looking, less likely to cause issues down the road from vibration or handling, and you can tuck your service loops in and hide them!
- Speaking of Service loops, It may look nice to have everything be nearly-taught, but give yourself a few cm per wire to allow for changes in the future. Its a bit of extra hassle to make it look nice, but it will be very welcome in the future.