Hello guys!
The shrink tube affects performance of the GPS?
Kind Regards.
You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!
This reply was deleted.
Hello guys!
The shrink tube affects performance of the GPS?
Kind Regards.
You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!
Replies
@Diego,
The only time that I had heat shrink affect the performance of a GPS was when I tried to use a hair dryer to shrink 3DR supplied heat shrink on an early version of a uBlox GPS. The GPS would not function after I had finished shrinking the heat shrink on the module.
Lesson learned here is to use an over preheated to 400 deg F and pre-shrink the heat shrink to just slightly larger than the module being coated then slip the heat shrink onto the module and pop it in the oven. The pre-shrunk heat shrink should not take more than a minute or two to complete shrinking. Remove module from oven as soon as shrinking process is complete.
Regards,
TCIII ArduRover2 Developer
Theoretically, yes. In real life not so much. But depends on type of shrink tube material used see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat-shrink_tubing#Materials
I'm going to stick my neck out here and say "no", although I have no evidence what so ever to back it up.
If I had to apply some retrospective logic to my assertion, I could argue that heat shrink is made of plastic, and the case of every GPS ever made is plastic, so its probably fine.