Searching for header connectors

[billygotee]

Hi,

I'd like to connect to seemingly common header pins. The separation is .1", and the pins are generally laid out to form a 1 or 2 row matrix. I've seen the male connector pins protruding from several boards (for instance, **broken link removed** has two sets of them).

If you've hooked up the audio wires from the front of a computer case to the audio contacts on a motherboard, it looks like a single wire with a single female header connector on the end that I can slide over the pins--the other end of the wire is to be stripped and inserted into a breadboard or soldered to perf board.

I know these are intended to go with a flat-flex cable receptacle housing assembly, but for prototyping purposes it will be a lot easier to be able to just do each wire one at a time. Thanks in advance!

-Brandon Arnold

 

[billygotee]

KK and C-grid

I figured it out. . .the header pins are Molex KK and the crimp connector housings are Molex C-Grid.

 

[3v0]

Molex pins are larger then the standard header pins you show in the picture. You can get correct shells and crimp connectors to fit these standard pin.

But a single row female Molex will fit over the the standard header pins. I would expect the double to work too but have not tried it.

 

[Speakerguy]

The top three pins with the white plastic look like Molex KK series connector to me. The rest look like standard .1" pitch headers.

 

[blueroomelectronics]

The white one is a molex KK, the other ones are just pin headers.

 

[billygotee]

Hey, thanks gentlemen. I had already ordered the Molex connectors and housings--they worked fine, though. It did take me a moment to figure out I was stripping the wires too far back and the strands were getting in the way of the pins!