We are going to start putting it together now, so with our camera and case at hand, we need a short 1/4" bolt that will thread into the Tripod mount on the bottom of the camcorder, we will screw this bolt into the bottom of the camera and put it inside the case and line it up best we can and try to get a good mark on where to drill the hole in the bottom of the case. The reason is, I want to put the camera in the case and have it locked into place, that way it isn't always flopping around inside and being a pain in the butt when setting it up in the woods.
Mark the spot, I used a ice pic to poke the whole from the inside all the way through so i could see the place on the bottom to drill for the bolt.
Flip the case upside down and drill the hole.
At that point you can run the bolt through the bottom and thread it into the camera to check it, I will get a flat washer welded to the bolt head, so i can tighten and loosen it with my fingers like a wing nut. I will also get a flat washer and make a rubber gasket, then when i tighten down the bolt the washer and gasket will seal off any potential leaks.
lets start wiring things up to the board, I made this cheap flimsy little drawing so you could see where all the wires go from one component to the next. so you don't get lost, because the pictures are hard to make out what I am doing.
First thing I did was hold my board approximately where it will be in the box, i figured out how long my LANC cable was going to have to be, and trimmed it to length...be sure to leave enough that it will stay plugged and still be able to pull the camcorder out of the case. but since the cable is about 6' long, I don't want all that extra inside.
Figure out what wire goes to the tip of the plug and what wire goes to the shank of the plug, on mine the side with a white stripe was to the tip, i used a multi meter to determine this. set it to check resistance, touch one lead to the tip and the other to one of the 2 wires...the meter should go from infinity (flashing 0) to a reading of 0 that is not flashing. if it gets a reading that is not flashing, you know that wire is the tip, or positive, solder it to the LANC Positive hole on the board. and the other gets soldered to the Negative LANC hole on the board.
Soldered to the board
using the wire thats left over, cut 2' off for the Array. somewhere in the middle separate the 2 strands of wire for an inch and cut one wire, strip the ends and tin the wires with solder.
Now that spot in the middle that you see and made, that is the GROUND, it goes from the 12 volt battery Neg, To the board, the other half goes from the board to the array board. So we want to solder those to the proper place on the board. those 2 pads on the board are designated as SL and C4, I evidently forgot to label C4 on the diagram above, but if you look you cannot miss it.
Do not solder the wires to the array board yet...Time to solder on the Servo motor. get the servo motor out of the box, Cut the plug on the end of the wires off, leave all the wire, no need to trim it as it is not very long anyhow. Solder them to the board. the servo motor has 3 wires, Red, Black and White Red wire goes to R2, Black wire goes to SB and the white wire goes to the W ports on the board.
Now the Battery holder for your 4 AA batteries that power the board, the wires need to be extended so that they reach to the lid, be sure to extend them enough so that they can be run to the back of the case, down and back out to the lid from under the camera, this will hide the wires. solder the wire extensions in place, but dont solder the wires to the wires on the battery holder yet, the reason i want all these wires soldered on now is because I am installing the board into the case at this time and dont want to have to pull it back out to do the soldering later.
Install the lens in the case for the sensor using 3M PT 1100 sealing tape, it is done the same way as in the digital camera tutorial.
cut out the hole in the tape and install the lens, Rough side to the sensor, slick side out.Install the Standoffs onto the board, and bolt the board into place in the case.
