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Kits available for making female connectors for PCB headers?

I did a Google search for this, but I must be using the wrong terms...

I prefer to use connectors on my circuit boards vs. soldering wires directly. I take apart a fair amount of scrapped electronics, so I know that there are a variety of headers and connectors available.

Are there kits available for 2-pin, 3-pin, ... n-pin headers and connectors, or does one have to buy everything separately?

Thanks.

-Mr. INTJ San Diego

(sorry I'm posting on Google Groups, but my ISP discontinued newsgroup support)

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Mr. INTJ
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look in a Molex catalog or Digikey catalog rw

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Ryan Weihl

Lost for words !

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Graham

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Eeyore

OK, looks like the terms I was looking for were things like "wire-to- board", "crimp housings", "crimp terrminals", etc.

Thanks all.

-Mr. INTJ San Diego

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Mr. INTJ

Hmmm, still not finding things in kit form...

Is it necessary to buy crimp pins, connectors and headers (and a crimping tool?) separately, or are there kits available somewhere?

If they're available from Molex, DigiKey or Mouser, I haven't seen them, but maybe I just don't know what to look for.

-Mr. INTJ San Diego

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Mr. INTJ 

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AFAIK, kits aren\'t available.

JF
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John Fields

Nay, nay! See, for example, Molex kit KK-100

with 0.1" pin headers, receptacle housings, receptacles, and crimper. To be quite honest regarding the crimper they include, well, sucks is just too kind. Waldom/Molex has a few other "complete" kits for various sizes and styles; catalog at

For the OP, this crimper (available at other sites, of course) is far, far better than what the kit above includes. It's also reasonably priced and can be used on most small, open-barrel style connectors like DB-style contacts.

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Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA
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Rich Webb 

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Yup; I stand corrected. :-)

JF
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John Fields

Only if that's what you want to use. You could use screw terminals and lugs if you like and have the space.

You comitted the cardinal sin of forgetting to tell us what is you're trying to do and why.

Graham

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Eeyore

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Excellent! Thanks Rich.

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Mr. INTJ

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