I'm struggling to find the correct name of the pins and or blades/crimps I sometimes see soldered into circuit boards. Sometime people wrap and solder wire around the pin. Some use the male crimp connectors soldered to the board and make connection wit the female crimp. Its the parts that go through the birds I can find.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Faston tabs? Do you have any pics of what you're looking for? There are lots of different connectors. Kind of hard to discern anything from your description.
I call that 4mm pitch 🙂 I should get some of these 🙂Search the catalog for Molex or AMP connectors.
There is a mind dazzling variety so post a picture of which ones are you interested in.
Molex 3 pin male and female, .156" pitch
There are also those pins -- turrets? -- that can be soldered onto a PCB that you can push in the leads of resistors or capacitors into the top to get the value right or change it (for phono inputs for instance).
I don't know. I've only seen them in photos. Some also have shoulder/grooves that would take wire for soldering.
I was looking for the poke home friction fit contact pins/turrets/whatever for the adjusting the loading of my upcoming Pearl build.
There might be something here: https://www.mill-max.com/products/new/printed-circuit-board-pcb-pins for both of us.
I was looking for the poke home friction fit contact pins/turrets/whatever for the adjusting the loading of my upcoming Pearl build.
There might be something here: https://www.mill-max.com/products/new/printed-circuit-board-pcb-pins for both of us.
It depends on the size you need but here's an example:
Keystone 1435:
https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/keystone-electronics/1435-2/318210
Keystone 1435:
https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/keystone-electronics/1435-2/318210
As JMFarley points out, "There is a mind dazzling variety", so measure carefully, from pitch, to height, to thickness. I've bought before where the height or thickness of the post is slightly different.
I was going to use something like this:
https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/keystone-electronics/3590/2745815
https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/keystone-electronics/3590/2745815
Actually 3.96 mm. For a two-pin connector the difference is negligible. Not so much for a 10-pin connector. 🙂
FASTON and QuickConnect (QC) terminals are generically referred to as spade terminals. They work well as long as you can get a good and gas-tight crimp on the mating connector.
Note that while they're easy to connect, the better ones are nearly impossible to disconnect. They put a lot of stress on the PCB. Of course, the copycat products practically fall off on their own.
Spade terminals are available in various sizes. 6.35 x 0.81 mm is the most common one. 4.76 x 0.81 and 4.76 x 0.51 mm are somewhat common as well.
Tom