The PVMA no more worries for batt connectors!

[Scubabatdan]

Ah, now I see the reason for the original post...I wasn't speaking to your 'switch in the barrel' solution - I was talking about the use of the lightweight switch in general.

No problem, but hey if you can find a .37"x.25" 1.5a-3a tact switch we could use one!!! I have been searching all over for one but to no avail. That is why we are stuck with the 50ma crappy switch

Sorry if it seemed I was jumpin on you, I just got frustrated trying to explain.
Dan

[mnealtx]

No problem, Dan - I couldn't figure out why the heck you were all over me for something that'd been said in so many threads...

I wonder if it'd be possible to cobble in a MOSFET to your "switch in barrel" solution? God knows they're small enough. Pull power for source from the battery side of the switch, gate from the other side of the switch and use the drain lead for the atomizer side "wire wrap"...

[Hatsepsut]

I am so confused. I'm generally not a thickie when it comes to "techie" stuff. Maybe it's just age taking it's toll but I'm still not getting much. Will have to sleep on things and re-read this thread a few more times before I start bombarding it with questions. This just to say to those of you who come up with these brilliant ideas and share them!

[nyx]

grr.. my standard 801 passthrough is going bad: only works now if i've got it pointed at the ground, which i guess means the connection where the line feeds in thru the LED cap is going bad (?). anyhow, since i've already got RCA connectors/switches made for my mini-mag lite mods, i was hoping someone here could be kind enough to explain to me (or just redirect me if it's already posted here somewhere and i've just missed it) how to put together one of the USB to RCA passthroughs i've seen pics of in this thread.

any info is appreciated, and as always: all the best.



to clarify, what i need help with is connecting the usb cable to the rca phono plug.. i know that the white and green wires in the usb bundle are for data transfer and am guessing i don't need to fuss with them, but i can't decide if the red and black are positive and negative or power and ground.. or how to go about actually connecting them to the phono plug. i saw what looks like speaker wire in Warp's pics, but am too much of a techno-tard to understand how it all goes together.

kk.. brain just clicked: if checking an atty with a multimeter involves connecting the pos lead to the center post and neg lead to the outer ring, then i should connect the red/positive wire to the center arm of the phono plug and the black/negative to the longer/outer ring arm, right? d'uh.. giving it a shot.. /cross fingers

[Scubabatdan]

grr.. my standard 801 passthrough is going bad: only works now if i've got it pointed at the ground, which i guess means the connection where the line feeds in thru the LED cap is going bad (?). anyhow, since i've already got RCA connectors/switches made for my mini-mag lite mods, i was hoping someone here could be kind enough to explain to me (or just redirect me if it's already posted here somewhere and i've just missed it) how to put together one of the USB to RCA passthroughs i've seen pics of in this thread.

any info is appreciated, and as always: all the best.



to clarify, what i need help with is connecting the usb cable to the rca phono plug.. i know that the white and green wires in the usb bundle are for data transfer and am guessing i don't need to fuss with them, but i can't decide if the red and black are positive and negative or power and ground.. or how to go about actually connecting them to the phono plug. i saw what looks like speaker wire in Warp's pics, but am too much of a techno-tard to understand how it all goes together.

Green and White are not needed, cut em and throw them away. Black (neg) goes to ground on the RCA, red (pos) goes to one side of the switch, the other side continues to the center pole of the RCA jack. That is pretty much it.
Hope that helps.
Dan

[nyx]

not entirely sure i follow you, Dan, sorry. sounds to me like you're talking about the switch in the y-adapter box? that part i'm good on.. i'm talking about the "USB to RCA" rig in the top pic of post #8 in this thread. if i'm just being dense and missing the point, though, please tell me. thanks.

[opuscroakus]

not entirely sure i follow you, Dan, sorry. sounds to me like you're talking about the switch in the y-adapter box? that part i'm good on.. i'm talking about the "USB to RCA" rig in the top pic of post #8 in this thread. if i'm just being dense and missing the point, though, please tell me. thanks.

this is what i'm looking at right now (sorry for the horrendous quality):

That's easy, red to the center post connector for the RCA jack and black to the ground/outer post.

[nyx]

That's easy, red to the center post connector for the RCA jack and black to the ground/outer post.

really glad to hear you say that since that's what i ended up doing ;b woot!



thanks guys, all the best.

[Scubabatdan]

not entirely sure i follow you, Dan, sorry. sounds to me like you're talking about the switch in the y-adapter box? that part i'm good on.. i'm talking about the "USB to RCA" rig in the top pic of post #8 in this thread. if i'm just being dense and missing the point, though, please tell me. thanks.

Whoops sorry thought you were talking about the connector in the box... Opus is right, for the USB it is black to outside (Ground) of the RCA and red goes to Center.
Dan

[nyx]

Whoops sorry thought you were talking about the connector in the box... Opus is right, for the USB it is black to outside (Ground) of the RCA and red goes to Center.
Dan

No worries, sir, it worked itself.. magnificently at that, heh. I *love* the vapor I'm getting out of this thing. Think I may need a portable 5V mod now.. lol. Once you start, it never ends, does it?

Thanks again, everyone, especially Warp & Dan.. couldn't have made any of these wonderful devices w/out your ingenuity & info. All the best.