The mechanical grip on those tiny pins just won't work well with solid core. They're expensive, a pain in the butt to work with, finding the right pins can be a hassle, and twice now I've ordered a bunch of stock parts that later become discontinued before I've used up the mating ends. Sometimes I don't know if they're worth the effort. I use Molex connectors on a lot of my projects. Or is there maybe a better interconnect solution that I don't know about to get off-board components wired up?
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Is there another tool I need to make this work? Maybe the crimp contacts are not good for my housings (even though they are an Associated Product on Digikey)? Does anyone have some info about how to assemble my own cables like this? Even when I take pliers and push hard, all that happens is the crimp contact snaps in half! I can get the contact crimped to the wire just fine, but when I try to insert it into the housing there is significant resistance. I am using solid core wire from an ethernet cord (24AWG I believe). Here is an example of the 4-pin housing that I got: Īnd here are the crimp contacts, which are listed as an Associated Product for the housing above: I ordered some housings from Digikey that fit my headers just fine, but I'm having a really hard time getting the crimp contacts to fit! Molex makes thousands of items - you just have to learn the website layout and the specs of the items you are looking for and you will feel right at home on Digikey's website.I've created a board that has 2-pin, 3-pin and 4-pin 0.1" male headers that are all meant to connect to off-board components like other boards, LEDs and potentiometers. The fact that Digikey (Mouser or Allied) even cater to the little fish like you or me is really great - just don't expect them to simplify their website for us. The development engineers for those large companies love the available variety since they can dig through the stocked items and find exactly what they are looking for (even if it takes them a whole day of research). Most of the purchasing agents from those companies know exactly what they want. The amount of available items on Digikey site (or in their phonebook-sized printed catalog) is absolutely overwhelming.īut remember, they are large industrial supplier that supplies production quantities of components to large electronic manufacturers. It is not really a mess - it is an information overload for someone like us. They went through a period there where the parts and components almost died out entirely, my store is pretty well stocked. Then I tried to find something simple like Molex connectors on Digi-Key, wow, is that a worthless seach feature! Had to search via Google on their own site, what a mess. Their web site is supposedly 1% of sales, but if you've ever tried to FIND anything on it, that probably has a lot to do with it. I've built a lot of power supplies and raw projects from parts. I think darn near everything electrical on the layout has come from RS. I bought a lot of supplies, pretty much the shopping list above, right down to the second soldering iron. I don't think she reads the same news I do. Manager told me that there's already a split between the 'go forward' stores and the ones slated for closure her's is supposedly staying open. Our local store is RIGHT BESIDE a Verizon, which always seemed to me the ultimate stupid placement when the same phones are in the same stores right beside each other. After reading the WSJ articles, I thought I better get what I wanted quickly. Webcams/security cams.all sorts of uses MRR and otherwiseįunny this should show up. Mini-heat sinks.to place on track to each side of a soldering operation Soldering Iron.always nice to have a backup for these last two. I bought some stuff at 40% off, but waited until it got down to 70% off before getting a ton of wire and solder and other stuff since I figured that would be the last thing most people would go there to buy. But the store was really in an ill-fitted area, and I was really able to have my pick of stuff since nobody in the area shopped there frequently. I could literally see the store from my kitchen sink window and it was nice to have one that handy. Radio Shack closed a ton of stores back in (I think) 2005 or so, and I went through this exercise then.
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