On Aug 7, 2010, at 12:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Jeffrey Engle wrote:
On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
You'll find that Molex, and AMP too, recommend against soldering
those crimp terminals. The high temperature and solder blobs
interfere with the flexibility of the metal and the mating force of
the connectors after assembly. Use a crimp tool!
Thats what's nice about the "push-on" style...
So share already! Tell us about the "push-on" connectors and the
source for them which you found.
After reading your question, I examined some of hte SATA power
connectors I have here and they all look like a solid plastic housing
(molded in two halves which are sealed together) with wires emerging
from them. Most power connectors are housings with removable pins.
One crimps the appropriate pins onto the ends of the wires, and then
inserts the pins into the housing in order to create teh complete
connector without any soldering, splicing, nor wire nuts. But these
SATA power connectors don't seem to follow that paradigm and it's made
me curious.
So you asked about htis in a public forum. It's only fair that you
share the answer you found. :-)
Jeff Walther
here's one of the websites I found....
http://www.adpmods.com/A-Modders-Guide-To-Making-Custom-SATA-Power-Cables-sp-26.html
and so I bought some of these...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280523909996&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_3202wt_1020
Then when I get them, I'll simply remove the "stock" molex "push-on"
connectors and replace them with the new sata push-on connectors...
They'll go in the exact places so that it'll look like it came that
way from apple. cool I think!!
Jeff Engle
Kamiah Idaho
83536
"some folks use'm for work, other's use'm for fun!"
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