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Permalink Reply by Jake Stew on May 10, 2012 at 12:09am

An old hard drive or floppy cable will fit the pins.  You'll probably have to cut it down to size and epoxy up the cut end so it doesn't come apart.   Use the old 40 conductor cables, not the newer 80 conductor ones, or use a floppy cable.  You should be able to get these by the pallet for nothing.

I started working on something like this, but ended up figuring that I better get everything right and tested before I spent all the hours soldering those tiny wires up in a custom harness.  You could also probably use the old ribbon cables that usually go from serial ports on slot covers to the motherboard.  I'll actually probably do that myself.

The APM2 seems designed to intentionally try to cover your GPS with as many tangled signal wires as possible and prevent it from being mounted properly, so this might be a popular solution.

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Permalink Reply by Tom in ON on May 12, 2012 at 7:54pm

Jake,

Thank you very much  for the tips. I will try the ribbon connector and see how it works.

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Permalink Reply by Todd Hill on May 28, 2012 at 11:40am

@ Tom, is this any help?

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Permalink Reply by Tom in ON on May 29, 2012 at 5:19pm

Thanks Todd.  Looks pretty efficient between the receiver and the APM2.  I ended up buying some 1,2,3,4,5 pin servo headers and pre-made crimped connectors with wires and will custom make the connections.

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