[Swansea Hackspace] Arduino Mega and Nema 17 motors

[jon lilley]

Also known as "Dupont connectors".
DON'T buy the pliers on eBay, all the cheap ones are rubbish.
Hobbyking do an inexpensive plier which is much better.

If you're anywhere near Mumbles, I have quite a few you can have, and a
loan of the pliers, too. 😉

Jon
On 3 May 2016 9:29 a.m., "Richard Morgan" <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi All,
> An easy question I'm sure.... :-)
>
> 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.
>
> I want to shorten the cables but they have the small black connectors on
> the end that slot onto the pins on the board.
>
> I want to buy new black connectors and a crimping tool so that I can
> cleanly shorten the cables and re-connect to the Arduino pins.
>
> Anyone know what these connectors and the crimper are called so I can go
> and search on eBay/Amazon please?
>
> ​
>
> All help gratefully received.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
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