2025-10-15 (W) BonfireLaserTag X-Shot power wiring

I wanted to finish wiring on the X-Shot tagger, but I underestimated how long it would take to connect the battery. I grabbed a twisted pair of 26AWG orange wires and tightened their twist by sticking one end in a drill and holding the other end. The braid was so loose before that they were separating at inconvenient times. The nuts and bolts on the positive terminal were trickier than those on the last model because this one had the rail connectors in the way, so I had to work around them. The negative terminal was easier, but I had to scramble to find suitable hardware. I settled on a couple of cheese-head bolts stuck into a coupler nut. The bolt heads helped the connection with the battery. I added the power wires to the blue spiral wrap that contained the screen wires, then fastened it with a yellow zip tie. I forgot to run a line from the raw battery voltage to the microcontroller. The battery lines terminated on the incoming line of a buck-boost regulator. I placed it between the microcontroller header rails to save space inside. I terminated the output voltage on the microcontroller VIN pin and GND. I set the voltage to 5.00VDC and called it a day.

Reading 5.00VDC on the microcontroller board

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