<div dir="ltr">How about a dab of silicone (RTV)? Would cover the pins, and could be peeled off later if the connector was needed. Or maybe just a piece of masking tape. That would stay in place for a while (although it might dry and fall off after a few years). <div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Tim (do robots have silicon implants?) Servo<br>---<br>"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein<br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 6:01 PM James Coplin <<a href="mailto:james@ticalun.net">james@ticalun.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Because they might need to be used in the future.<br>
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On Sep 5, 2024, 7:48 PM, at 7:48 PM, "Chromatest J. Pantsmaker" <<a href="mailto:chromatest@chromatest.net" target="_blank">chromatest@chromatest.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>If the pins are unused, why not delete them?<br>
><br>
>On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 5:28 PM James Coplin <<a href="mailto:james@ticalun.net" target="_blank">james@ticalun.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> It clearly isn't best practice. It's not a synth but an arcade<br>
>control<br>
>> panel with lots of rgb LEDs and a tangle of point to point wiring no<br>
>matter<br>
>> how carefully you string it. The controller cards for the LEDs have a<br>
>pair<br>
>> of large 2 row headers for connecting the 4 wires to the controller<br>
>for<br>
>> each led.<br>
>><br>
>> There ends up being lots of unused pins and unfortunately while<br>
>trouble<br>
>> shooting a bad crimp connection, an unhooked spade thermal numped<br>
>into<br>
>> some exposed pins on one of the controllers and cooked it. I could be<br>
>more<br>
>> careful obviously but now I'm also looking for ways to prevent it<br>
>from<br>
>> happening again regardless of my care level. At some point I'll have<br>
>it<br>
>> open and have some dangle cable, or a cable will come loose, or I'll<br>
>be<br>
>> moving something and the threat will reappear again.<br>
>><br>
>> Just to put some numbers on it, there are 43 buttons, each with 6<br>
>wires<br>
>> for a total of 258 wires each end of which has a metal spade type<br>
>conductor<br>
>> of some point. That's a lot of careful handling that I would rather<br>
>try to<br>
>> mitigate if possible.<br>
>><br>
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>> On Sep 5, 2024, 7:13 PM, at 7:13 PM, Neil Harper via Synth-diy <<br>
>> <a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >On 2024-09-05 12:55, James Coplin wrote:<br>
>> >> Yesterday, I burned out a board when an exposed piece of connector<br>
>> >happened to touch some exposed pins while opening and closing the<br>
>case.<br>
>> ><br>
>> >why does the board need to be powered up when you're opening and<br>
>> >closing<br>
>> >the case?<br>
>> ><br>
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