{"id":14978,"date":"2022-05-04T15:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=14978"},"modified":"2022-05-04T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:26:15","slug":"how-do-i-know-which-color-wire-connects-to-which-pin-on-the-bta-btd-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/14978","title":{"rendered":"How do I know which color wire connects to which pin on the BTA\/BTD connector?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our LabQuest sensors all use BTA\/BTD (British Telecom Analog\/Digital) cables to connect to a Vernier interface. BTA\/BTD connectors have 6 pins and therefore BTA\/BTD cables contain 6 wires. If you are building your own sensor to use with a Vernier interface, repairing a broken cable, or using a <a href=\"\/product\/analog-bta-cable\/\">Analog BTA Cable<\/a> (<nobr>CB-BTA<\/nobr>), you will need to know which wire in the cable is connected to which pin on the connector. We do not publish wire color-connector pin information because it may vary from cable to cable; we buy cables in bulk and the manufacturer may swap wire colors as needed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The simplest way to determine which wire is connected to which pin is to use the continuity function on a digital multimeter: touch one multimeter lead to a wire and the other lead to a pin. If the multimeter buzzes, that particular wire is connected to that particular pin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related TILs<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/5457\/\">Vernier Wired Sensor Pinouts<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/1952\/\">Can I use Vernier LabQuest sensors with non-Vernier software or interfaces?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/818\/\">Where can I find BTA and BTD connectors and sockets?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our LabQuest sensors all use BTA\/BTD (British Telecom Analog\/Digital) cables to connect to a Vernier interface. BTA\/BTD connectors have 6 pins and therefore BTA\/BTD cables&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[789,7629,798,671,450],"class_list":["post-14978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bta-elv","tag-btd-elv","tag-diy","tag-homemade","tag-pinout"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}