[sdiy] My latest project

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 10 July 2005 12:59 pm, Bert Schiettecatte wrote:
> Hi Jh!
>
> I looked at the pictures, very cool work. Congratulations! I have a question
> about synth building in general - what connectors are you using for wiring
> the various PCBs to each Other?

Depends on how  many wires you need to connect...

> I'm relatively new to synth diy and I'm afraid I still Need to learn a lot
> about basic things like board to panel Wiring, etc. I've looked at many
> molex connectors but they Always require expensive crimping tools?

Not necessarily.  I've done them with pliers,  and also soldering the leads to 
the pins.  You might want to get the tool to remove the pins from the shells,  
though.

Two kinds of connector pins out there-  the "round" ones in a couple of 
different sizes (.062 and .093 come to mind) and which are okay for a lot of 
stuff,  and the "square pins" setup,  better if there's any power being 
handled,  they're also easier to remove from the cable connector.  See any PC 
power supply connector for the former (though those are NOT "Molex" but "AMP" 
or something) and the typical smaller PC power connector usually meant for 
the floppy drive for the latter.

> Are there cheap Sources for this stuff,

I haven't bought any for a long time,  but when I did I just went down to the 
local electronics wholesaler we have around here.  I'll say this,  though -- 
don't buy little packs like what you see at radio shack,  those are *way* 
expensive for what you get,  I always bought connector pins in bags of 100 at 
least.