zerofox3D Bender Assembly Video - The HeltecV3 18650 Battery Case with SMA connector for Meshtastic

right this is the one take Bender assembly video that I've been trying to get done for a month um so this is what you get in your Bender kit so you have the body of the Bender which can have a top connector or a side connector this is the top variant you have your battery case um this one has the switch included but there is another which doesn't have a switch included which just looks like that instead um you have your SMA connector connecting your main antenna um your back your front your hex tool for tightening the nut on the SMA connector and if you order the one with the switch you get a little tiny button that goes on the front right so first step is generally best to put the SMA connector in so undo your nut and take your washes off and try not to drop them now the the the top connector one um you need to bend it in slightly so so it's best to go in through the back and then tilt it that way and push it up and the nut on the back of the SMA connector is captive so you'll see it slots into a hex shaped recess and that stops IT from spinning when you tighten the nut so then you want to get your washers uh I generally put the spring washer on first that one and then you're not give it a spin and then get your SMA hex tool putp that on and then tighten it doesn't have to go too tight if you go too tight it'll it will break the uh it will break the the little tool that's that installed now what you want to do is you want to pass that cable back through the front so it's in position I uh now you can take your battery box and you want this red cable uh the positive end to this end of the bender and pass it through and this is where you have to jiggle the wires a little bit these through so you've got the the power connector for the board goes to this end the switch if you've got a switch goes to this end get that seated in and now you want to grab your htech which you've purchased elsewhere of course and you want to get your little power connector switch around here and now I'm having to do this whil looking through a camera lens so what you want is it's the red wire come on Focus it's the red wire to this side side and you want to get this in here it's not easy doing this while looking through a camera lenses the problem so I'm probably going to peek around the side here we go get in there you go so that's in you want flip around now seating the actual card the board some people have had problems with but it's actually dead simple so what you want to do is you want to get the USB port properly aligned so you get it again I'm doing it through a camera lens so it's better if I look through but if you get the USB port properly aligned and when you look in you'll see it smack bang in the middle and then it should just dead easy popping so sometimes you have to give it a little nudge in this top corner but it's normally fine right now it's the SMA ipex connects are rather on the board now these are a little fiddly and Delica I'm definitely going to have to peek around the side and what can sometimes help is if you have a little pair of pliers to give it a nudge uh to get it on because they they do take a bit of pressure to pop on oh oh and mine pops on nice and easy so there you go so then that's in and there will be your battery box is going to fall out the back whilst you're filming um and then we've got our on this one cuz this one's one with the switch we need to put our button button SL switch in to the front so what I do is I leave plenty of cable so this is uh quite easy to do now the on position for the switch is when the switch is moved towards the two cables so if you remember that you can um you can decide which way you want your on and your off position to be so I I like the on to be towards this way so I'm going to put it in this way and then you just insert it and this is quite snug what you can do is you can put a bit of super glue around the edge here to uh to make it stick in permanently well then that goes in and then you'll notice your your little Peg for your switch is now poking through now on the front of the bottom I don't know you to see it there's a little circle I use that to donate on so I'm going to put it at this end to show that it's on at this end now it's worth noting that sometimes this hole can be a bit tight uh and it's because the the peg is square and sometimes the hole isn't Square cuz of the printing process so sometimes you can have to just put a little knife in and just tweak the corners to make it prop L square and that will make it easy to slide on but you'll see once you if you do that it should just be a case of again I want to do this looking through a camera and pressing on T then to put the front on it should just be a case of getting one end in I tend to do that end first and then pop clip on and that is the front to the vender installed now get your battery case in properly now you just pop your battery in sorry no I'm wrong you put your antenna on first cuz you always install your antenna first so put your antenna on pop your battery in and then the back cover just pops off and that is it your complete vender

Channel: zerofox3D

Views: 2,616

Keywords: meshtastic, heltec, lora, off grid comms, preparedness, radio, encrypted comms

Id: sjKEy4P9SJw

Length: 6min 22sec (382 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 26 2024