True. But it was a time consuming frustrating PITA for me…
Desoldering was the worst part, well over an hour. Am no Pro with soldering iron. Gave up desoldering the steppers, even though that would’ve completed the coolness. Soldering new headers in the desired orientation was just a few mins. So…
Personally wanted to explore and experiment with this concept/approach, but, I have no idea if anyone else would want this?
If offered, I’d happily purchase a Mostly Assembled JackPot SYOWC edition (solder your own wire connectors). Which comes with the connector parts for power, endstops and steppers, but the Maker decides if, and how they want to connect. Some makers might decide to use the connectors provided, or, their own 2.54 pitch connectors, or, just straight up solder wires directly to PCB (I’m looking at you Dupont haters :-).
Either way, JackPot SYOWC edition would be cheaper to fabricate and partially assemble for fussy pants makers like myself?
Ended up using dual row 90 degree dupont pin connectors for the endstops, bent slightly less than 90deg before soldering, to help connectors clear adjacent solder joints. My thinking was to help the endstop wires stay within the confined braces (RC2).
Have no idea if being so close to the router will be a RF issue at runtime, will see…