Finding board-to-wire connectors and leads on Farnell's site

Here is a two-way housing which could be cut down to one-way. The page also links to the crimp sockets (which can with care be crimped using pliers for small quantities).

If you can use a round pin, then look at:

and the associated pins, contacts and crimped leads.

John

These will fit the pins....

In bulk, buy from digikey USA (not UK) for BIG savings- 50%+ e.g 6 way, 100+ Farnell 83p Digikey 100+ 20 cents ! BUT there is shipping/duty/vat etc on top. I buy 500 at a time and save a fortune.

Why not just use one of each? Solder the one into the board, and solder wires to the other, clip the pins short, and glurp it with RTV?

Good Luck! Rich

: :I'm looking for either leads or 1-way pins/sockets which can be :soldered/crimped onto wires and will fit these: : :

Simple... buy the female opposite type connector.

Now break the strip into individual connectors (file rough edges if necessary). Solder a conductor onto the solder end and insulate with heatshrink.

:On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:06:37 +0100, Nobody wrote: : :: ::I'm looking for either leads or 1-way pins/sockets which can be ::soldered/crimped onto wires and will fit these: :: ::

Sorry, I may have misunderstood. I assumed that you wanted an individual socket which could have a wire (lead) attached such as for making a patch cord.

I'm currently using the above for leads, but I was hoping to find something that was *meant* to be attached to a wire rather than a PCB.

Yep, that's exactly what I want, and what I'm doing. I just hoped that there would be something a bit better suited to the task.

socket

I know they exist as they are commonly used in any cheap PC case, so it just needed a little googling followed by digging in the parametric search.

Is what you are looking for? (FCI 65039-036LF 1 way Mini-PV series crimp socket)

These are the terminals:

and these are the housings:

I buy the longer housings and cut them down.

Leon

:On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:54:15 +0000, Ross Herbert wrote: : :> Sorry, I may have misunderstood. I assumed that you wanted an individual socket :> which could have a wire (lead) attached such as for making a patch cord. : :Yep, that's exactly what I want, and what I'm doing. I just hoped that :there would be something a bit better suited to the task.

They probably are available somewhere because the last PC case I bought had some of the front panel leads terminated on individually housed terminals exactly as you would like to find. However, since these are crimp terminals they require the right tooling - and this assumes you would be able to buy the housing and pin as a pair. I would guess you would have to buy each part is bulk. I think the soldered solution you have adopted is better - and cheaper...

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:47:00 +0100, Nobody wrote: ...

And there are others - these are just off the top of my head.

Hope This Helps! Rich

some

You can get go to the auto parts store and get a crimper that can be pressed into service. Maybe even Radio Schlock. I've crimped terminals with a needle-nosed pliers; but one day I got lucky - an AMP rep _gave_ me a crimper that would have cost a couple of hundred dollars retail.

Good Luck! Rich

solder pcb header pins into in-line sockets?

someone makes IDC crimp pin that fit into 2.54mm pitch shells like the common 2.54mm pitch crimp sockets, I see them shipped with some PC mainboards