Electron antena cable

Troubleshooting
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Hi all,

For the second time the connector in my electron broke apart.

To prevent this from happening… I plan to sodder the antenna cable directly on the board.

Any suggestions on where the external ground wire goes and where does the internal goes?

If I check continuity on the board all three pins of the antenna connector (board side) have continuity!!

Thanks

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Hi @frlobo

If you look here:

https://github.com/spark/electron/blob/master/pdfs/particle-electron-v020/electron_v020_pcb.pdf

You can see the PCB layers and it looks to me like the center pad is the center of the coax and the other two flanking pads are RF grounds.

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