[Swansea Hackspace] Arduino Mega and Nema 17 motors

[Ceri Clatworthy]

I have a few here...

How many do you need.

I do have a crimp tool, but it is not quite the right one, - you end up
destroying more with it.
It is much easier to use small pliers.

Ceri

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 07:03 +0100, Richard Morgan wrote:
>
> > I have several Nema motors on my 3D printer that connect to the
> > Arduino Mega with a 4 pin connector. I want to tidy up the cables
> > which are too long.
> To a RAMPs or similar board rather than direct to the arduino i hope :)
>
>
> > Anyone know what these connectors and the crimper are called so I can
> > go and search on eBay/Amazon please?
>
> It's a fairly generic wire-to-board 0.1" (2.54mm) connector, many
> manufacturers make them.
>
> eg.
> Molex C-Grid III series
> Multicomp MC34 series
> Amphenol Mini-PV
> etc.
>
> cpc/farnell etc have them listed as 'PC Connectors' - 'Wire to Board' -
> then select 2.54mm pitch, 1 row, etc etc
>
> dont forget to buy the matching crimp contacts, if your lucky the site
> selling the shells will link to the crimps, if your unlucky you get to
> read the datasheet and find the right one, they are not interchangable
> on the whole so you have to get the right one.
>
> the crimp tools are fairly generic and not too expensive, the crimp
> contacts are usually all the same 'open barrel' type so its easy to find
> a crimp tool for that.
>
>
>
>
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