Hi, looking for **fully insulated male** .187 crimp terminals for
18-22 wire guage (aka spade terminals) in anything other than red. Seems like red is the prevalent color for this terminal and wire size but have seen blue used with finished products but cannot find to buy....Tried usuals like Digikey, Mouser, Newark, Jameco, Action etc....Here's a picture of what I'm loooking for;
Help!! Thanks!
I believe the color coding is an ANSI standard, or some other guideline. If so, you could have a hard time finding non-standard colors.
I have seen sleeves that you could crimp onto the wire first, and then use a larger size terminal. Blue would be the next color / size up.
Seems like that's a lot of effort & parts, though.
If your goal is wire ID, (i.e., to ease end-user installation instructions, or simplify assembly), I have seen terminals with silkscreened identification. You'd probably have to buy in bulk though to get exactly what you want. I'm not aware of any vendors who stock anything common like that, but they're may be some out there.?
Good luck.
Yup. From Molex at
-- 6. what does the color of the insulation mean? A. The colors (red, blue, and yellow) are used to tell you the wire range that can be used in the part. This is an industry standard color coding. Example: Blue = 14 or 16 AWG wire The colors repeat over and over, and are an industry standard, i.e.... Yellow = 24-26 Red = 18-22 Blue = 14-16 Yellow = 10-12 Red = 8 AWG Blue = 6 AWG Yellow = 4 AWG
For those sorts of crimp terminals, the insulation colour indicates the recommended wire size, so I don't think you'll find an 18-22 crimp terminal with anything other than red insulation.
You might try
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Bare terminals and color-coded heatshrink?
Magic marker? ;-)
Cheers! Rich
Pete, thanks for the link but no luck there either. I have a DC motor here that uses what looks to be the said connector with red for positive and blue for negative crimped to the respective wires. Maybe the blue one is 14-16 instead of 18-22. Whatever, it seems odd that one would be forced to use say red connectors where blue or black would be the norm from a polarity perspective.
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It's not - it's molded. The heat shrink idea was to get terminals with no plastic and heatshrink them after you plug them in. If you're talking production quantities, you could probably order a batch of a different color. Why not call your supplier and ask?
Good Luck! Rich
Then use red and black wire. Then the color of the terminal won't matter.
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The colour vs wire size thing is to ensure that the user uses the right size terminal for the wire at hand.
If you want to identify the wire function, you use a separate marking system. You could, for example, use coloured heat-shrink tubing over the connector or wire.
However, it is not unknown for users to put the wrong size terminal on a wire - perhaps the person who put those terminals on ran out of red ones, so misused a blue one to complete the job.
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The colors are for coding as to wire sizes, so if you absolutely demand a non-standard then you will have to either pay big bux for custom, or fudge using a 16-14 AWG (blue) connector with the possible need to insert two wires (second one might be different size).
Reverse the connectors so that they can't get mixed up.
Then it won't matter what color they are.
Male Female = Positive
Female Male = Negative
If it were that easy, it would be simpler to use a two pin keyed connector. It sounds like the OP wants to use the .316" connectors to push on existing lugs on the motor to reduce the number of steps and amount of labor in assembly..
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Ok, then do a Plan "B"
Not in stock, but curiously, Digikey shows a couple parts that might work for you...(?) Both of these are spade terminals.
For 24-20 ga. Sleeve is WHITE PVC:
For 22-16 ga. Sleeve is BLACK nylon:
I'm as surprised as anyone to see these. (Wonder if they really exist?) I've only even seen the red/blue/yellow series sequence.
Guys, thanks for the help. Actually, the applicati>
They are color coded by size but it's not a SAE standard, you will find some that don't comply. Try NAPA, Checker, CarQuest, and the like. Alco bargin bins, Kmart...
=46or a slight incremental cost you can get uncolored ones.
Ordered some which were supposedly red but turned out to be actually light p>
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