[SpiderFan2k3]

I followed along. I did the soldering. But the toggle button in the foot pedal is damaged beyond repair. How do I fix this? Is there an alternat button I can use, or does anyone know the.type of switch used in the pedal that I may be able to replace?

[spydir]

But there are two wires running from the trap to the pedal. How do you wire that to the single wire of the coax cable? Sorry I'm completely new at this and know little of electronics

Edit: Ramsastro gave me the info I needed in a comment on his video. In the pictures on Amazon, it's hard to see that there is a metal "ring" around the core of the cable. That is what you solder to.

I just ordered the parts I need and will hopefully post my results in a week or two.

Yup, there are two leads on the coaxial adapter. Just need to connect a wire to each one.

What are the leads, though? The brass center piece and the arm sticking out? Which is ground? I've never seen this kind connector, but I'm sitting here with 2 of em just laughing at me.

[Mathew_impact1]

Unless you are doing the "LED mod" viewtopic.php?t=46465, not recommended if you are not up on electronics. It doesn't matter if the wires are swapped. The push button switch leads can be connected either way.

Normally the center pin is "signal" and connects to the center wire in the coax. The body of the connector connects to the braided shield of the coax.

[The_Y33TER]

So, I got my son's ghost trap modded with a BNC connector & a toggle switch. I also added extra battery power & got the trap successfully opening & closing.
Everything was working fine, so I started to reassemble the trap only to find that after putting everything back together I was back to square one!
I've got sounds & lights but the trap still won't open, just a click from the motor and nothing.
Failure is not an option though & so I'm going to try & mod the trap using a single board microcontroller to control the motor.
Looking at the original board the larger IC controls the LEDs & sound, as well as possibly sending control signals to the smaller IC, which I assume is a motor driver.
I'm pretty sure it's the smaller IC that is faulty, as the LEDs & sound are working but the trap won't open.
I'm hoping then to use a microcontroller (i.e. an Arduino) with a motor driver to enable the microcontroller to reverse the motor which opens the trap.
In the first instance I'm going to try & keep the board which controls the LEDs & sounds to make the project slightly easier but if I can overcome the problem of controlling the motor I hope everything after that will be easy!

Switch the connectors for the open/close limit switches.