How to connect power supply to gen6? Hi everyone! I've been trying to search for a visual tutorial since I know nothing of electronics and am afraid to do a mistake. Can't find any, but if I've understood OK, I just have to peel two yellows and two blacks from the power supply and connect them to the board through this: 800px-Gen6_power_neg.JPG mod_embed_images_loadimage('d55b8024d48dc98749cfc9b996a0698d', '/forum/thumbcache/e85/3e2/1ab/fc9/fee/c29/133/3c0/466/38d/1f_800x400.png', 'http://reprap.org/mediawiki/images/thumb/2/29/Gen6_power_neg.JPG/800px-Gen6_power_neg.JPG', 'https://reprap.org/forum/addon.php?4,module=embed_images,check_scaling=1,url=http%3A%2F%2Freprap.org%2Fmediawiki%2Fimages%2Fthumb%2F2%2F29%2FGen6_power_neg.JPG%2F800px-Gen6_power_neg.JPG', '', 171985, 800, 400, 'Loading image ...', false); And same with the heated bed right (joining the yellow and black cables, which the makerfarm tutorial told me should go directly to the power supply..)? Some questions: Can I use any yellow cable or any black cable from the power supply for both the heated bed and the board? are they all the same? (yellow: 12v, black: neutral, right?) How should I join the cables? do I need ferrules to crimp? do I need to solder? can I simply interlace them and tape them with black tape? I'm building a prusa mendel v2. Electronics: gen6, bought a "XTech" pc power supply (500 watts) thanks in advance. https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?4,171985,171985#msg-171985 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:13:55 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?4,171985,171989#msg-171989 Re: How to connect power supply to gen6? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?4,171985,171989#msg-171989
I wired up the thermistor and resistor the wrong way: got the cables mixed, but they end up in the same molex connector, similar to this one:



The connection should be like this: 1122 (1: resistor, 2 : thermistor), but I got it like 1212.

How can I fix this? should I cut the cables and rejoin them, or should I remove them directly from the mlex? I know they can be removed from the molex but can they be reinserted?
]]> Pixbae Reprappers Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:24:56 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?4,171985,171985#msg-171985 How to connect power supply to gen6? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?4,171985,171985#msg-171985
I've been trying to search for a visual tutorial since I know nothing of electronics and am afraid to do a mistake. Can't find any, but if I've understood OK, I just have to peel two yellows and two blacks from the power supply and connect them to the board through this:



And same with the heated bed right (joining the yellow and black cables, which the makerfarm tutorial told me should go directly to the power supply..)?

Some questions:

Can I use any yellow cable or any black cable from the power supply for both the heated bed and the board? are they all the same? (yellow: 12v, black: neutral, right?)

How should I join the cables? do I need ferrules to crimp? do I need to solder? can I simply interlace them and tape them with black tape?

I'm building a prusa mendel v2. Electronics: gen6, bought a "XTech" pc power supply (500 watts)

thanks in advance.
]]> Pixbae Reprappers Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:36:04 -0500