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

["milesy1981" <chrismiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

haha

thanks for the help everyone.

I have searched maplin's website but they do not appear to stock
them although they do stock the pins themselves.

Chris
>
> 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@...> 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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