USES FOR THE CB PTT BUTTON

[ARtraveler]

Last post on this thread 11/2016.

 

[PinkRosePetal]

Although it's an old thread it may be useful to somebody; this can be done, I've done a few non OEM cb installs. Your soldering needs to be very good! The ribbon cable can be cut and the surface plastic scraped away to reveal the copper tracks. The problem is that one track is very thin and fragile and it will break off if the soldered wire is pulled, even lightly. The solution is to solder a very light wire to the tracks - I use fuse wire - then trap the soldered joint between two small pieces of rubber - superglue the rubber pieces and bring them together around the soldered joint taking care not to glue your fingers to the whole thing! Once this is done you can now solder fine cables the the fuse wire tails. Take the small cables and glue them to somewhere convenient to anchor them. Once you've done that you can route the cables out of the handle bars. If your cable is sizeable you may need to make a small notch in the edge of the plastic so as not to pinch the cable as the switch assembly is tightened closed.

In my case I use the PTT switch to ground a cable from a relay coil so the relay caries the active load for whatever device I switch using the PTT button.