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Flying Rockmite 20 metere QRPp tranciever issues and projects
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Insufficient RJ45 breakout card standoffs for Flying Rockmite #21

Closed hcarter333 closed 1 year ago

hcarter333 commented 1 year ago

The breakout card was supported on the radio case with two diagonally opposed standoff bolts. When suspended, the torgue between the CAT5 cable and the case caused bare contacts on the board to short on the case. Add aditional two corner standoffs. image

hcarter333 commented 1 year ago

I origially thought I'd have to drill two more holes. Instead, I used two threaded nylon standoffs with screws holding them in place from the top of the board. image

Here's the finished result: image

The small blue RJ45 screwdrivers worked great for the nylon screws. Note that the nylon standoffs are in no way mounted to the box, they're simply held in place with the screws through the breakout board.