I'm quite familiar with these connectors, we used to use them by the thousands at work. I'm not sure if Molex called them MTA series, but AMP (now Tyco Electronics) did call them MTA (Mass Termination A?). They do come in two sizes, 0.156" pitch and 0.100". They have different colours, Red is the most popular. I don't know it all, but here's what I do know... In 0.156" there are Red and Yellow connectors. in 0.100" there are Red and White connectors.
Yellow is good for 16 to 18awg wire. Red is good for 22awg or 24awg. White is for even smaller wires ~28awg? There is a special tool to punch these connectors, this tool is quite expensive, fortunately, I have one from the old days. It's difficult at best to punch your own with a narrow blade screwdriver, but I've seen it done. Since it's an IDC, I wouldn't want to bet on the quality of the connection done by the incorrect tool. I still have a number of these connectors, what size do you need? I can prepunch them with a set of wires for you, just tell me the length of the wires. I have various roles of wire, let me know what colours you want, I might have it. Regards, Josh From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:7049] Re: Magic Molex Ordering Assistant? Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 06:15:59 -0400 To: [email protected] I believe the series name from Molex is the "MTA series". Look up "A1964" on digi-key. That one should be the same as the connector on the Altair CPU card that's used for the data connector for the front panel link. I would have to pull my board to be 100% sure though. Sent from my iPhone On May 19, 2015, at 10:27 PM, John Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: Rich, do you have search suggestions for the female connector for the Altair front panel? I am having the same decoding problem. JohnP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
