[dorkbotsea-blabber] Where can I get one of these wire thingies?

[Bill Beaty]

At 12:02 PM 5/16/2008 -0700, you wrote:

>(Careful not to confuse it with the other really common, similar  
>connector that connects to the standard 0.025" square pins on 0.100"  
>centers. The connector it looks like you have is the slightly larger  
>type, with 0.045" or 0.025" square pins on 0.156" centers. 


 From his photo, that most probably *is* a 0.100" connector, 
not 0.156".  Color is totally unreliable: the Digi-key part
is opaque white, not translucent polyethelene, or black or 
brown.   He'd better measure the pin spacing!




>For some  
>mysterious reason, the larger connectors are usually made with a  
>white nylon-like plastic and the smaller ones with a black, crunchy  
>(glass-filled?) plastic. Molex makes a huge variety of connectors but  
>these are the common ones.)
>
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