Morning everyone, hope everyone had a great weekend. Didn't get much time to spend on my build over the weekend, hopefully I can get it done or close today. Only thing I got done was solving the issue I had with the short screws I used to mount the board, I solved that last night and this works very well for anyone looking to mount these 200 boards in a bare Hammond style box without having to use some additional face plate or fixture. This also grounds the board to the mod via the mount pads, it also helps transfer heat from the board to the mod which was said to be not critical, but a benefit over on the Evolv forum. I'm not going to rely on grounding the board this way, all neg/ground wires will be soldered to the board and attached to the case via the 510 ground ring.
As seen in the pics below I had used self tapping screws going through the face of the mod into the board, I was going to make stand off tubes with nuts and screws like VapingBad did with his 1590A mod >>here<<. Instead I made some stand off tubes from square aluminum tubing that I picked up at the RC hobby shop, this tube made by K&S [HASHTAG]#83010[/HASHTAG]
Square Tubing - K & S Precision Metals: Full Line Metal Specialists
Square Aluminum Tube 3/32x3/32 (7) (k+s3010) K-S Hobby and Craft Metal Tubing
I used the same screws I used as before just shorter, they thread nicely into the tubing. Now I have three screws going through the back side of the board into the tubing and three more going from the face of the mod into the tubing. First I mounted the stand offs to the board, then attached the board to the mod. I made the tubes .195 long, this sets the board so the usb port is coming into the port opening in the face of the mod but now just slightly below the surface, you can see in the pics how it stuck out before. The screws I'm using came from old hard drives I stripped down and salvaged the magnets from, the screws held the little pc boards of the HD's and are in varying length, all measure .065 or 1.65mm diameter.
After I had the board setting deeper and to the correct depth, the buttons I made were then loose, I just put small o-rings over the buttons before placing them in the mod which gave me the same perfect fit as before, they are ever so slightly pre-loading the on board switches so there is no rattle and they have the same short throw of the switch themselves, (I hate rattling mods). I still have to shorten the buttons just a tad, they still stick out from the face of the box a little more then my liking, not a big deal and I'll take care of that once I get to the fine tuning stage, I'm still in mock up mode. I'll get some detailed pics of these stand offs posted later.
As seen in the pics below I had used self tapping screws going through the face of the mod into the board, I was going to make stand off tubes with nuts and screws like VapingBad did with his 1590A mod >>here<<. Instead I made some stand off tubes from square aluminum tubing that I picked up at the RC hobby shop, this tube made by K&S [HASHTAG]#83010[/HASHTAG]
Square Tubing - K & S Precision Metals: Full Line Metal Specialists
Square Aluminum Tube 3/32x3/32 (7) (k+s3010) K-S Hobby and Craft Metal Tubing
I used the same screws I used as before just shorter, they thread nicely into the tubing. Now I have three screws going through the back side of the board into the tubing and three more going from the face of the mod into the tubing. First I mounted the stand offs to the board, then attached the board to the mod. I made the tubes .195 long, this sets the board so the usb port is coming into the port opening in the face of the mod but now just slightly below the surface, you can see in the pics how it stuck out before. The screws I'm using came from old hard drives I stripped down and salvaged the magnets from, the screws held the little pc boards of the HD's and are in varying length, all measure .065 or 1.65mm diameter.
After I had the board setting deeper and to the correct depth, the buttons I made were then loose, I just put small o-rings over the buttons before placing them in the mod which gave me the same perfect fit as before, they are ever so slightly pre-loading the on board switches so there is no rattle and they have the same short throw of the switch themselves, (I hate rattling mods). I still have to shorten the buttons just a tad, they still stick out from the face of the box a little more then my liking, not a big deal and I'll take care of that once I get to the fine tuning stage, I'm still in mock up mode. I'll get some detailed pics of these stand offs posted later.
