RGB LED holder/socket

[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]

hmmmmmmmmmm

Yes, I made the same sound.

[Franco B]

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.

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.

hmmmmmmmmmm

Yes, I made the same sound.

Nothing to see here, more along please

[whammoed]

Yeah, I'm sure they work fine for LEDs.  LEDs seem to have about the same leg size as the 0.1" header pins.
It may be that it would be difficult to make a connector with crimp pins spaced at 0.05".  That's awfully close together and there wouldn't be much room in between the pins for the housing.

[Franco B]

Yeah thats kinda what I was thinking too. Hmmm. Oh well, I'll just have to keep them soldered. Thanks for the help.

[whammoed]

I suppose you could use two of those connectors and bend two LED leads (1 and 3) slightly forward and bend the other two (2 and 4) slightly back.  The LED would not "snug" up to the connector of course.

[Franco B]

Yeah I have been thinking about that. I'm not sure how neat it would end up looking and it may be a bit bulky for what I want.

I think I may try and get some flat cable with a similar pitch and solder that to the legs.

[Encryptor]

Franco,

Is this what you're looking for?

http://tinyurl.com/ycyr2tj

Encryptor

[Beley]

Not shure if its exactly what you are looking for, as these arent pre-wired, but...

digikey part numbers: H2181-ND (housing) and H9992CT-ND (contact)

connecters are allways a pain to find.

[whammoed]

Not shure if its exactly what you are looking for, as these arent pre-wired, but...

digikey part numbers: H2181-ND (housing) and H9992CT-ND (contact)

connecters are allways a pain to find.

Good find.  I didn't think to look for a slightly different size.  (0.05" vs 0.049")  Got to be close enough.  Pretty inexpensive too.

[Franco B]

Franco,

Is this what you're looking for?

http://tinyurl.com/ycyr2tj

Encryptor

Thanks for looking Encryptor but they are 0.100" pitch.

Not shure if its exactly what you are looking for, as these arent pre-wired, but...

digikey part numbers: H2181-ND (housing) and H9992CT-ND (contact)

connecters are allways a pain to find.

Nice find  

I was having a think last night and I thought of a better way to wire them without using pre-wired connectors. However, as these are not pre-wired I can hopefully use the better wiring method in conjunction with these  

The price is great too. Good job as I need 50+

Edit: £12 shipping is a bit of a biatch but even then 100 sockets and 400 pins only comes to £28.64 shipped which works out to less than 30p per socket and four pins

Thanks everyone for your help

[HaRuMaN]

Hmm...

50+ sockets...

So 50+ RGB LED's...

HmmmmmmMMmmMmMmMmmmMmMmmmmMMmm....

[Franco B]

Its nothing too exciting I'm afraid, don't get your hopes up

[Ginsu Victim]

The ultra LEDildo?

[javeryh]

Its nothing too exciting I'm afraid, don't get your hopes up

Too late!   

[ubiquityman]

I'm doing exactly that with 5mm LEDs.  The spacing is about 0.1 and the sockets are small enough to hold the LED legs securely.

You can get the connectors from action-electronics.com
It's relatively cheap, but shipping is expensive.