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Bought some mini USB type B male PCB connectors to make Magellan GPS power cables for neater installation in my cars. The cable version connectors don't appear to offer solder pads for all 5 pins judging by their photographs so they don't appear as if they will work.

I think I was taken by an ebay vendor when I originally bought the cable type. I think I stupidly assumed that we had misplaced the first order and reordered some more, and what really happened is the vendor shipped neither order.
 
A 0.25pf capacitor !
Its for compensation on the USB scope I have designed.
The input is 1M with 2pf input capacitance.
In the times 10 mode the 9M input resistor needs a 0.25pf cap across it for compensation.
Trying to find a through hole one was impossible. So had to buy 4 off 1pf caps and put them in series !

Solder two 1" (2.5cm) pieces of 30AWG wire wrap wire to the pads. Twist until you get the right capacitance.