I bought an empty Kestis Crossguard hilt that came with 2 finished pixel quillon blades. It did not come with the pin side pcbs, but that is another discussion.
The vendor I bought from is going to see if he can get more info from 89, but I was wondering in the mean time, is there a way to meter out the connections or anything?
I do not know which pad corresponds to what pixel trace? Picture of the 89sabers stock photo for reference:
Is this installed with the 89 universal chassis?
If so, I have the pinouts for the connector, and if you can trace the pads to the corresponding pin on the universal connector, I can tell you which is which…
Actually, better idea… The factory install with a universal chassis has the emitter, crossguard, and main blade in parallel on data 1 and LED23. By extension, that means if you cannot trace those pads to the connector inside the hilt, you should be able to trace them to the hilt-side npxl PCB (I don’t think I need to tell you which pins are which there 
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Multimeter the pogos?
I’d check for continuity between the battery’s(+) end and one of them. That’s hot.
Then set to DC voltage and try the other 2 while keeping the (+) probe on your newly found hot pin.
A solid 3.x or whatever battery voltage is likely the ground. But don’t trust that.
Continuity check the 2 remaining, non-positive pogos : one will go to some soldered LED pads on the board, one will beep on one of the data pads that are soldered.
Then you’ll know the pinout.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. This is an empty hilt that I am going to install. All I have is the blade with the pcb pads. I was wondering if I can meter the pads of the sealed blade to determine what is pos/neg.
I would hope the middle pad is data, but I suppose I can’t be sure.
I can’t think of a safe way to do this unfortunately.
I think you need to get the information from the vendor.
Darn. Thanks for the info.
