The other two. You want N.O. and Com.
So, white and yellow.
Make sure you remove the #3 Jumper on the xACv2 or you could short something.
Wait, we’re supposed to remove a jumper? I’ve been playing around with my xAC this past week and have just been shifting them between terminals (like left vs right if that makes sense) but didn’t know I needed to entirely remove one!
PS sorry for potential thread derailment.
PS PS this is an awesome project and I’m excited to see where it goes.
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Pertains to the xAC and not fucking shit up 100% on topic lol
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The S3 jumper is used to hook the common (white wire) to either ground or + power inside the board. Basically you don’t need to use the white wire if you use the jumper.
Drawbacks of this.
It doesn’t provide much juice. Basically only good for a signal. Draw too much and it burns up. 
If you have it set to ground, and then hook the white wire to 12v+, then you have a dead short. 
Best practice is to just remove it, and hook up the wire.
Uh, heck ya.
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Gotcha! It’s a miracle I didn’t mess it up already, given my luck with technology.
Thank you!!
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Ok did another 30 minutes of wiring, just waiting on the 5v buck converter
(I hope 5v isn’t going to be too much, but I have no way of actually knowing what this relay is rated for)
Made a antenna extension, (yea I used the super quick bullshit heat sodder connections but should be fine right?
Antenna will fit nicely in the 3D printed housing, there is 1mm of material thickness where it’s sitting, I could make it thinner if suggested
Stuck the small 12vdc ups I picked up for 20$ in there, should give me decent coverage if power is out, anything more than a day and I can stick the digital combo face back on
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Do you have a part number for those connectors? Might be useful info to squirrel away for a future project.
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Jst ph 2.0 assuming your talking the antenna
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@amal
You understand the voodoo about these antennas,
Think that 12” extension is going to bite me?
keep the wires side by side and don’t twist them… you’ll want to reduce the inductance change from the extension as much as possible.
Twisting affects it? Voodoo I say…
voodoo is just magic
magic is just science we don’t yet understand.
Think of it this way. If you twist the wires one full turn, you’ve added one loop of winding to the coil. More loops = more inductance.
I could maybe eliminate the extension, but then the antenna wouldn’t be removable from the outside… and it would be pretty tight to get it thru the door…
Hrm
Put it together and bench test it. With or without extension, with or without a few turns of twist.
Ahh, I was thinking twisting like rope… I was just accepting that that I’m not trained in the mystical arts
Yeah, like rope. If you made a coil like normal, and then pulled the ends apart, it’d still have the same # of turns, but just be much longer. Like twist in a rope.
Unless you’re right on the ragged edge of working or not, I’d not worry too much. Try it and see.
They are dirt cheap and can come as pigtails pre-crimped. Used a lot for lithium batteries in RC drones.
They come in a rolled pin or a solid pin. Rolled is usually cheaper and should work fine, solid is theoretically lower resistance/loss so might be a better choice if extending a long way.
I picked up a set of pig tails, hoped it would be long enough, but I needed to add some wire in between
I might be able to make no extension work… gotta get home and fiddle with the digital lock face to see if the antenna loop and stow underneath it