I’ve been finding the various sensors, motors and other electronics items I’m acquiring for projects come with bare wires (usually twisted stand and not solid core) and I would like to establish the tools and consumables to standardise these items to a specific kind of connector that’s easy to interface with a breadboard and with other items.
I’ve been noticing on some items I’m pulling apart recently that the PH 2 pin connector for power to motors and similar devices seems quite common. I’m usually dealing with items that have just two wires for power that I want to get into a breadboard and interface with other things.
The ideal situation would be I could take these items with bare wires, crimp a particular kind of connector of which I have plenty of sockets, and then put the socket in the breadboard and plug the connector in.
Any suggestions? Has someone come across this problem before and found a nice solution? Does CE offer some products to help with this?
We have a range of connectors that could be suitable. These are some JST PH connectors that you could solder some wires to breadboard.
These wires here you can breadboard with, the pre crimped terminal on the other end means you won’t be dealing with just loose wire unless you need to.
There isn’t really a standard here so you’ll find you will just develop lots of different connectors over time.
Or if you have a lower quality breadboard that will not like probably more than one insertion of the header pine you could do what I do. (and I have quality breadboards but still don’t like using header pins)
This is a short bit of 22G solid tinned copper wire crimped into a bootlace ferrule with the stranded wire. Works well and does not damage the breadboard connections.
If you are worried about bare metal shorting this is an option.
There are many ways around this problem
I would dance around that idea of inserting sockets into a breadboard then plugging something else into that. This will only introduce another unnecessary connector.
Cheers Bob
PS: “Dance around” means I personally would NOT do this except as a very last resort.
