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2 and 3 pin connectors used with Bitx40 sad board
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Thomas Noel
开云体育John Ion and Rob - thank you. The Relimate name made them easy to find - in India!Ion’s link to Tayda helped the most. Tayda has an Ebay store. Still have to wait for LONG shipping delay. Thomas W Noel KF7RSF
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When I was Arduino playing a lot the DuPont jumpers used to hook everything up always drove me nuts.? It seems you never have enough of the colors, lengths, etc. that you want. I finally decided to just make my own.? This video shows the Engineer PA-09 crimper that I ordered.? It takes a while to learn to use it, but once you do, you'll love it! (I'm low vision, so it took me longer, but still not that long) I ordered the male and female ends, along with housings up to 10 pins, from China through eBay, it took a while for everything to arrive but they were cheap and I ordered a lifetime supply. Once you can make
the jumpers, and have the multi-pin housing available, your projects
get to looking a lot less like a rat's nest and a lot more like an
actual organized project! Steve, KA0NEB |
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The wait for China goods is extra long right now because of the Chinese holiday. Most folks don't go back to work over there until Monday.? I bought several from Digikey for my scratch built Bitx. Not sure if they are the same connectors used on Farhan's board but I think so. Here is the 2 pin I bought. Terminals are sold separately. I am just several hundred miles from Digikey so parcel post shipments get here in two days. If your package is under 8oz. you can have it shipped parcel post for just a few dollars.? 73 - W0PWE |
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Mark W
开云体育If that is the same company as Tayda Electronics, I buy from them at least once a month. They don’t have everything, but they have great prices on what they have and good reliable shipping. Mark K3MRK ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ion Petroianu
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BITX20] 2 and 3 pin connectors used with Bitx40 sad board ? I found this shop very reliable. or On ebay there are no shipping fees. VA3NOI |
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Mark W
开云体育Missed the 2nd link. Same company. ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ion Petroianu
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BITX20] 2 and 3 pin connectors used with Bitx40 sad board ? I found this shop very reliable. or On ebay there are no shipping fees. VA3NOI |
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Jack Purdum
I've had good luck with Tayda. Their deliveries are much faster than China. Someone told me they have a distribution warehouse in the US, but I don't know that for sure. Jack, W8TEE From: Mark W <K3MRK1@...> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [BITX20] 2 and 3 pin connectors used with Bitx40 sad board Missed the 2nd link. Same company. ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ion Petroianu Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BITX20] 2 and 3 pin connectors used with Bitx40 sad board ? I found this shop very reliable. or On ebay there are no shipping fees. -- Ion VA3NOI |
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The PA-09 crimps mentioned above are PRICELESS for these connectors. I tried a cheap pair of cheaper crimps and they were garbage. I highly suggest the pa-09. I picked mine up from adafruit a long with some 10k pots and ok looking knobs for cheap. Getting the crimps from adafruit were really fast because of where I live but I suspect that they'd ship anywhere in the lower 50 faster than anyone in china could get them to me at roughly the same price. Here's my setup for crimping these connectors: PA-09 crimps: Dupont connectors: 2 pin housing: 3 pin housing: |
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This is a genuine question and not sarcasm, is 50 bucks a good price for a simple hand crimper? I was shocked when I saw the price. Roy WA0YMH On Feb 1, 2017 7:50 AM, <KD2BBW@...> wrote:
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After trying and wasting money on other crimps and dies I wish I spend the 50 the first time. They're still a long shot cheaper then OEM molex crimps.
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LOL!? I'm with you Roy!? I thought it was ridiculous too!? Heck, I didn't even want to pay for Chinese ones, so I tried crimping them with needle nose pliers first (instructions are out on the net for that...how hard could it be, right?), but I'm low vision and that was waaay too hard.? Then I ponied up for the Chinese crimpers and spent a couple frustrating nights trying to use them.? Doing research on what I was doing wrong, I found out I wasn't doing anything wrong - no one was having much success with them!? EVERYONE was recommending the PA-09s.? I finally just sucked it up and plunked my money down.? Sometimes there is just no choice, and this is one of them.
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Hi I see that Adafruit sells the PA-09 crimper. If you watch either Adafruit's Ask An Engineer or Show and Tell shows, they will show a 10% discount code. These shows are live on YouTube, Show and Tell at 7:30 EST and Ask An Engineer at 8:00 EST. Tonight and every Wednesday. The discount is only good until midnight. If you miss it, wait until next week for the next discount code. 10% isn't a huge amount. But, it helps. Happy crimping. I should probably get a crimper. I have lots of headers and pins on order from Tayda. Randy, K7AGE On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Steve Robertson <bobs_otr@...> wrote: LOL!? I'm with you Roy!? I thought it was ridiculous too!? Heck, I didn't even want to pay for Chinese ones, so I tried crimping them with needle nose pliers first (instructions are out on the net for that...how hard could it be, right?), but I'm low vision and that was waaay too hard.? Then I ponied up for the Chinese crimpers and spent a couple frustrating nights trying to use them.? Doing research on what I was doing wrong, I found out I wasn't doing anything wrong - no one was having much success with them!? EVERYONE was recommending the PA-09s.? I finally just sucked it up and plunked my money down.? Sometimes there is just no choice, and this is one of them. |
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In a pinch you can solder them, then I didn't crimp the wings that normally crimp on the wire, they aren't that tall so they'll fit in the housing and if it's a good solder joint there's no reason to crimp them.? Then you can use needle nose to crimp the upper one that grabs on to the wire jacket.? I found it helped to clip a little of those upper wings off.? The crimpers are faster, but soldering works in a pinch for just a few wires.
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Thomas Noel
开云体育HA HA! ?I started this thread and just today noticed the typo in the Subject: line.I just want you to know my board is quite happy, as am I. That is meant to say Bitx40 SMD board. Thomas W Noel KF7RSF
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You can use the snap off connectors. Snap off as much as you require, solder the wires and slip a piece of sleeve over the connections. Lawrence On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Thomas Noel <tnoel@...> wrote:
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Do you have any photos of the connectors you're talking about? Roy WA0YMH On Feb 2, 2017 1:08 AM, "Lawrence Galea" <9h1avlaw@...> wrote:
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Ion Petroianu, VA3NOI