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More info?)
Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated!
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:51:22 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:43:30 -0500, stop@spam.today.com wrote:
>
>>I went to radioshack and tried looking for those connectors where one
>>end plugs on the motherboard, and the other end you slip in the wire
>>that is hooked up to the LED.
>>
>>Radioshack person didn't know what I was talking about... so anyone
>>know the real name for these connectors? A place that sells them
>>would be good info also.
>>
>>
>>Thx for info on this!
>
>2-pin connector for .025 pins on .1" centers
>
>You'd be surprised how much a tiny piece of plastic and two metal inserts
>can cost when you buy in small volume, you might consider just soldering
>the LED to the far end and covering with a few mm of heatshrink tubing.
>I don't recall what Radio Shack wants for these parts but I did once order
>them online and they were outrageously expensive, about 8 cents a piece
>for EACH tiny metal insert... may not seem bad when buying only a few but
>at the time i needed several hundred and couldn't find any larger volume
>pricing that'd be any cheaper than buying just a few hundred.
>
>When considering what to buy the issues can be what support parts you
>already have... if you have a soldering iron, some spare wire, etc, then
>you'll end up with a better finished result due to being able to select
>custom wire lengths. An alternative is to use ribbon cable, like on an
>old floppy drive cable, then just seperate the ends as far back as needed
>for the plugs and LED spacing, or use CAT-5 cable or any other
>multiconductor wire of small diameter, high gauge.
>
>Then there's this:
>http://sales.goldmine-elec.com/prodinfo.asp?prodid=3273 , which looks like
>a misc. assortment situation so you might need buy a few "sets", more than
>you need to end up with enough of the right length.
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