Re: Re: Need to find name of electrical component....

["David Gumbrell" <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Molex is a manufacturer that makes many connector types. Yes, commonly
the
4-pin hard disk type connectors get called "Molex", but that's
purely to
distinguish them from the floppy drive connector type (which they probably
also make, but we won't go there) :-)

Cheers,

David


On 3/8/07, milesy1981 <chrismiles@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hi there.
>
> I believe molex connectors are the name given to the big fat ones
> you use to connect power from your PSU to your hard drive, CDROM
> drives etc.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
> >
> > I've always known them as Molex connectors.
> >
> > They come in different flavours of pin spacing, with and without
> latch
> > or polarising bumps etc.
> >
> > I had a big bag of them in the loft. Drop me a mail off line and
> I'll
> > put a few in the post - If I can find them!!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Neil
> >
> > milesy1981 wrote:
> > >
> > > You know in a motherboard you have the jumper pins where you
> connect
> > > your case's Power/HDD LEDs, and the speaker etc to. I am
trying
> to find
> > > the name of the things you connect to these pins. So I can
have
> easily
> > > removable LEDs etc from my circuits.
> > >
> > > Many Thanks
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>


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