DNA20 + small box + liquid epoxy = never again! :)

[testdruif]

Had a field day with putting this thing together

the milling went perfect but then came those dreaded tactile switches.
I first tried to superglue them in place but that wasn't strong enough so I got to a liquid 2 compound epoxy.
Sad thing about that was that because of "lack of practice with this stuff" I ****** up 4 (I did a retry after the first one) switches. (the actuators themselves got epoxy in them rendering them useless after 5 minutes)

I still had some other switches but those were not great for building in an aluminum mod with 2mm walls as the actuator only protruded less than a mm.
So I went back to my trusty solid epoxy which filled the hole between the switches and the body. Ugly like hell but it works

I moved the 510 connector up a bit by putting 3 spacers around it to make some more room needed in that darn little box!
Wiring the dna20 is also somewhat of a challenge. Not the soldering itself but all those damn connection you end up with a tiny box mod with 20 miles of wire in it

But in the end I got a working, small, powerful dna20 mod and box it rocks.

You like the evic, you want a dna20
You like the vamo, you want a dna20
You like something else, you want a dna20

I'm really amazed about what this thing puts out.
Used it side by side with my other mods (vamo, evic, gripper, mechs,...) and the flavor is so much different than those.

The only thing I didn't imagine is the lack of functions on this board...
You can choose left or right screen mode, lock it and put it in stealth mode, that's it so no fancy thingies what so ever.

[raid2506]

Well you got a working mod and that's the important thing.

It can be a steep learning curve and you picked up a couple of important lessons there.

How do you charge the battery?

The wire you have used looks like it could power a city, you could try some much lighter stranded equipment wire.

If you pull all the wiring out, solder and heat shrink the joints it will look much neater.

Ideally you want short wires with the neat connections, and move them to the back and sides where possible.

[testdruif]

Put in a 500 mah usb charger board to charge the battery or you can just take out the battery, it's in a normal battery holder.

Unfortunately I didn't have smaller diameter wires The smallest I could find in the general hardware stores was still .5 mm even the audio canle here is .75

So I'll have to go and pick up some more wire and heat shrink at a specialist "electronics" shop (I kid you not, that is where I have to go to buy stuff that is "generally used" in e-cigs)

I must say with putting together these things I've become more of a fan for the mechanical mods