Quick connect/disconnect crimp terminals

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

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.

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.

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..

Ok, then do a Plan "B"

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>