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Franco B:

I have quite a few RGB LEDs to wire up for a project and I want to be able to plug the four LED legs into a socket, something like a four terminal of [this].



I have been looking at a few websites like digikey but i'm not sure exactly what sections I should be looking in. What is this type of thing called, a header pin cable? There seems to be a few similar products but with different names.

I think the pitch of the LED pins is approx 1.27mm (0.050")

Does anyone know where I might find something like this?

whammoed:

That looks like a standard 0.1" pitch connector.  Doesn't look like something specific for LEDs.  Same thing you would use to plug the power button, hard drive led, etc into a PC motherboard.
I'm not having any luck finding a similar 0.05" connector at the usual places.

HaRuMaN:

hmmmmmmmmmm

Ginsu Victim:


--- Quote from: HarumaN on March 24, 2010, 11:00:58 am ---hmmmmmmmmmm

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Yes, I made the same sound.

Franco B:


--- Quote from: whammoed on March 24, 2010, 10:23:41 am ---That looks like a standard 0.1" pitch connector.  Doesn't look like something specific for LEDs.  Same thing you would use to plug the power button, hard drive led, etc into a PC motherboard.
I'm not having any luck finding a similar 0.05" connector at the usual places.

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They can be used for LEDs. If you follow the link they are advertised as LED holder/sockets but you are right they do look like/are the common JST etc connectors.

I had been looking for connectors at some places but like you I wasn't coming up with much, I thought I may have just been looking for the wrong thing but if you can't find anything either then I may be SOL.


--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on March 24, 2010, 11:21:32 am ---
--- Quote from: HarumaN on March 24, 2010, 11:00:58 am ---hmmmmmmmmmm

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Yes, I made the same sound.

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Nothing to see here, more along please ;)

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