How to connect wires in the Lumen light PCB board slot

[noppita (Manop Charoensuphong)]

I have 4 lumen lights and i just purchased 2 more light and i will attach the additional 2 lights with existing 4 lights but i was not sure how to connect red, yellow and black wires to the socket. Do i push the wire into the slot? how to identify which wire go into which slot? do i connect the wire into the same slot orientation as in the other side of the PCB board?

[EliotBR (Eliot)]

Hi @noppita,

@noppita

Do i push the wire into the slot?

This post is likely worth a read:

Lumen light internal electrical connections

We use this punch tool on the insulation displacement connectors: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/avx-corporation/069176701602000/478-4623-ND/1650845 The connectors are designed to use with this tool. As @johng and @Tangaroa mention, you might be unsuccessful or even cause damage without this tool. Without the tool, it might help to place some wadding like folded up paper towel over the wire before pushing it in order to get some conformation and even pressure application.

@noppita

how to identify which wire go into which slot?

The slots are labelled on the PCB with silkscreen (white text), but for your reference

• the yellow (signal/PWM) wire goes closest to the edge of the board
• the red (power) wire goes in the middle of the connector
• the black (ground) wire goes in the remaining slot, at the edge of the connector that’s closest to the middle of the board