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Battery terminals and final parts

A project log for ShortyPen (by Jiri Dobry)

An ultra-low resistance 3-wire Kelvin portable ohm meter

criptastichackerCriptasticHacker 09/20/2024 at 04:450 Comments

The battery terminals slide in nicely (as do the batteries - it's a cool design) but no accomodation was made to keep the terminals at a safe distance from shorting.  What's more, they have to have their solder tabs cut.  Personally, I would have opted for a 2mm thicker pen:


Again, I ended up using insulating polyimide over the contacts and under the main probe. Sadly, the positive terminal can short to the motherboard if you're not careful - it was not designed with any unpopulated courtyard on the PCB to avoid this, the way consumer products usually are.


After this, you'll need to connect 2 wires (ideally insulated together - like from an old audio cable) to PB1A and PB2A.  these are the through hole solder joints under the display.  This cable, or rather, those 2 conductors, travel through the 3D printed back nut and then get soldered to another externnal pinpoint probe.  This is what completes the circuit - 2 wires (to their own test probe) and the built-in test probe  So, a 3-wire Kelvin setup!


At the end of the day, it does come together and it does work.  and it's free and open source!

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