Power Molex

[JuggaloGuido]

Hi guys,
I am working on my first MAME cabniet so this entire thing is a new adventure for me.  I've gotten some progress made, but I seem to have hit a simple wall.  The cab has a different connector than the arcade monitor I bought for it.  The cab has a molex style connector with one circle and one square, and I cant seem to find one around my area.  Wondering if anyone knows the name for that piece or another route I can take to connect the power to my monitor. 

Thanks for helping the new guy,
jarett

[Nephasth]

Cut it. Splice in your own ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

[lilshawn]

seconded. no sense keeping something that isn't going to work for you. Unless you can find/have a matching plug, chop it off.

don't worry nobody will think any less of you.

[smalltownguy]

If you want a nice clean solution, post up some pics of the two connectors in question. I've converted dozens of monitors and cab over the years, so I can help you get the right part number for the proper mating connector from DigiKey, if you show me what you have.

[Nephasth]

If you want a nice clean solution, post up some pics of the two connectors in question. I've converted dozens of monitors and cab over the years, so I can help you get the right part number for the proper mating connector from DigiKey, if you show me what you have.

If it were me, I would find the proper connector. But chances are good that he doesn't have the proper crimper for the Molex pins. Using bullet or spade connectors will allow the OP to have a disconnectable connection by using common crush type crimpers that are typically found on combination wiring tools.

[smalltownguy]

I made some connector adapters for this very purpose

[Trip]

Definitely post up a pic, should be pretty easy to find on molex's site and then order from mouser.

Boo to crush crimp, get a good open barrel crimper so you can do molex and a bunch of other open barrel connections.

This one is cheap and pretty decent for a nonratchet type.  Get the ratchet type if you don't mind spending the money.

http://www.amazon.com/Platinum-Tools-Barrel-Contact-Crimping/dp/B000CSC4W2

[mgb]

If you want a nice clean solution, post up some pics of the two connectors in question. I've converted dozens of monitors and cab over the years, so I can help you get the right part number for the proper mating connector from DigiKey, if you show me what you have.

If it were me, I would find the proper connector. But chances are good that he doesn't have the proper crimper for the Molex pins. Using bullet or spade connectors will allow the OP to have a disconnectable connection by using common crush type crimpers that are typically found on combination wiring tools.

I agree.

[JuggaloGuido]

Thanks guys,
The bottom cord is what is in the cab.  I do have a crimper I can bum from a buddy if it is needed.  Though it looks like the spade connectors could work, and I know radio shack has them. 

[smalltownguy]

Cut that top connector off, that's the funky one that Wells Gardner used late in the game, and it's a pain in the ass to use.

Here's the connector you need:

http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?x=0&y=0&lang=en&site=us&KeyWords=WM1687-ND



And the pins:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/02-09-1117/WM1103CT-ND/1784902



Buy a bag of 10 connectors, and a bag of 100 pins. Less than $10 total, and you'll have enough left over to convert many more monitors in the future.

[PL1]

That bottom connector looks like a Molex .084" MLX Series Connector.

Twistywrist carries the line, as do other suppliers. (SW Yoke harness connects to the 12 contact version w. female pins.)


Scott

[smalltownguy]

That bottom connector looks like a Molex .084" MLX Series Connector.

Twistywrist carries the line, as do other suppliers. (SW Yoke harness connects to the 12 contact version w. female pins.)


Scott

NO.

The .084" pins are found in the mlx and the AMP Mate-N-Lock series, but the bottom connector is NOT a .084 pinned connector. It's .093"

I've re-pinned dozens of these monitors and connectors, and I am positive the bottom connector in that picture is populated with .093" pins. The TOP connector has .084" pins, however. That's why I'm telling him to cut it off. The .093" pins and connectors are MUCH more common in the cabinets than the .084" that his monitor chassis currently uses.

The only cabinets I've seen that have the mating plug to that connector in the top of the picture are the 19" Dynamo and 19" Data East cabinets I've worked on. Everything else I've seen has used some form of the .093" connectors.

A remote exception would be on the OLDER Wells monitors, they used the AMP Mate-N-Lok series stuff. Those also used the .084" pins.

[PL1]

Sorry about the mix-up on the 2-pin -- at first glance it looked like a MLX. 

The SW yoke connector and pin links are definitely verified good, though. (Recently ordered some.)


Scott