5 pin Female Connectors from Smash

[Labelwhore]

Anybody know the part number for the 5 pin Female Connectors that are available at Smash TV's shop? I accidentally bought several 4 pin connectors where I needed 5 pin ones instead for my DIN modules. Oops!

I've searched high and low on mouser.com and can't seem to find them.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Labelwhore]

never mind, I found the little bastards.

[fussylizard]

I found what I thought were similar ones on Mouser (8 position - 538-50-57-9008 for header and 538-16-02-0096 for pins).  Last night I searched the forum and found a post that recommended this same line of parts - http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,8498.msg59492.html#msg59492.  However, I tried crimping them last night and they were a huge pain and didn't really work with the crimp tool I have.  Mouser lists hand crimp tools for these for $300+ (!).  The pins from SmashTV crimp perfectly with the $11 crimp tool I got from CuriousInventor.  If anyone has had success crimping these pins from Mouser without the $300 tool I'd love to hear about it.

As an aside, I saw last night that SmashTV now has 8-position headers (I swear they were not there a month or two ago or I would have ordered them from there in the first place).  I'll give the Mouser pins one more shot this weekend but I'll probably end up just ordering some new ones from SmashTV that are easier to work with.

Regards,

C

[Labelwhore]

I found what I thought were similar ones on Mouser (8 position - 538-50-57-9008 for header and 538-16-02-0096 for pins).  Last night I searched the forum and found a post that recommended this same line of parts - http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,8498.msg59492.html#msg59492.  However, I tried crimping them last night and they were a huge pain and didn't really work with the crimp tool I have.  Mouser lists hand crimp tools for these for $300+ (!).  The pins from SmashTV crimp perfectly with the $11 crimp tool I got from CuriousInventor.  If anyone has had success crimping these pins from Mouser without the $300 tool I'd love to hear about it.

As an aside, I saw last night that SmashTV now has 8-position headers (I swear they were not there a month or two ago or I would have ordered them from there in the first place).  I'll give the Mouser pins one more shot this weekend but I'll probably end up just ordering some new ones from SmashTV that are easier to work with.

Regards,

C

I just use needle nose pliers :) I'll let you know if that works on the mouser ones

[fussylizard]

That's what I mostly ended up doing last night.  With a working crimp tool making those connectors is not a big deal.  With needle-nose pliers it's downright tedious, esp. when I need to crimp 66 pins.  I realized I have enough crimp pins from SmashTV to do what I need to do, but I don't have any 8-position female headers.  So I'll probably just use SmashTV pins bare for now (without headers) and order the headers the next time I place an order with SmashTV.

[rosch]

hi! does anyone know where i can get such female connectors in germany?

here at our local electronics store they sometimes have cables already mounted to such connectors, but very expensive.

but 'just the connectors' they pretend not to know :o

[Labelwhore]

hi! does anyone know where i can get such female connectors in germany?

here at our local electronics store they sometimes have cables already mounted to such connectors, but very expensive.

but 'just the connectors' they pretend not to know :o

well, here is what I ordered:

http://www.harwin.com/M20-106/M20-1060500-product.html

you can search for distributors here:

http://www.harwin.com/contact/distributors/

I had to get the pins separately

[strophlex]

As an aside, I saw last night that SmashTV now has 8-position headers (I swear they were not there a month or two ago or I would have ordered them from there in the first place).

I think I got some of these 8-pin female housings (I guess you mean the housings for the crimp connectors and not the headers you solder to the board) that I bought by accident from Smash TV. It turned out I didn't need them. If you still need them, I could send them over. I think I got eight of them.

[fussylizard]

I think I got some of these 8-pin female housings (I guess you mean the housings for the crimp connectors and not the headers you solder to the board) that I bought by accident from Smash TV. It turned out I didn't need them. If you still need them, I could send them over. I think I got eight of them.

Wow, thanks for the offer, but I got impatient and ordered some from Smash over the weekend so I think I'm good.  I ordered a bunch of various sizes ages ago, but that was before he carried the 8-pin ones.  I really appreciate the offer though, thanks!