Boadicea Conversion
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And here with the weight on top of the chip. The amount of room between the bottom of the weight and the edge of the body indicates roughly how much space still there will be above the weight. There is enough room for a longer chip or one with pins and a plug-in harness. Work out which way you wish to have the wires emerge from the tender - bearing in mind where the leads will have to be soldered. I like to have enough lead left should I need to re-make the connections at some point. Cut to exactly the right length looks neater, but a nusiance if a subsequent repair renders them too short.

But the result is that the chip fits, quite easily.

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