I have my eye on this rotary encoder. I want to get a cable/connector to connect to it, but I'm new to this and never know what the correct terms are to search on. And the connector space is swamped with a million options, brands, sizes, standards...
The connector is a "Samtec CES-106-01-S-S", data sheet here... that's a 2.54mm pitch, single row of six pins.
I'm looking for something like this, but 2.54mm pitch, and ideally a right-angle plug on the male side (other side can be bare leads.)
I'm not asking anyone to track this down for me, but if you could clue me in to how to even go about looking for it I'd appreciate it!
"Wiring harness"? "right angle 2.54mm pitch male cable"? These kinds of search terms aren't helping... I go to mouser and there are 100's of thousands of items in the wire & cable / cable assemblies section and it's kind of a needle in a haystack trying to narrow things down.
Or maybe I get single wires with whatever you call the pin-end termination style and tape them in a line? What's the best way to go about this?
There's no kit, though -- that other SKU is the rotary encoder with a pin header instead of a socket... and I can't use it because it's not an open collector output like the 205-B (for some reason -- not sure why they don't have those permutations in their lineup, but they don't seem to.)
Anyway, DUPONT CONNECTOR -- the magic words, thanks for that!
So do they make cables with right-angle male pin headers on the end that fit a dupont connector? Or should I just get something like this right-angle male/male adapter and go into a cable like the one you showed?
I don't believe that I've ever seen anything like that. Usually if you want an angle connector, it's on the board end, not the cable end.
The majority of wiring harnesses/cables like this are custom made. Usually you can get at least the common ones premade. This would be an unusual application, but maybe you can get the "bits" and connect them yourself.
e.g., I have these premade crimped conductors, that insert into this and the combination would plug into your encoder and give you bare wire leads, but you'd need to add the right-angle connector at the other end. That you could do with solder and heat-shrink.
What do you want the right-angle male header to mate to?
Thanks -- the encoder itself has a socket, not pins... (see mouser image here) so I'm trying to finagle a connection to it.
It's weird, because it's a panel mount encoder, but the socket faces up, so you only have 3.6mm to squeeze in some kind of connector underneath the panel face... looking at the right-angle connectors on mouser, it doesn't look like any of them are going to fit. Not sure what this is all about. Maybe it's a SKU for a particular industry that has these magic cables pre-made?
So I guess I'll look at the pin header SKU instead, but it's not open collector so I have to worry about TTL level translation, etc.
EDIT: I take it back, looks like some of the RA connectors might be small enough...
You ordered the wrong variant. I circled the correct pn's for duponts. The OEM data sheet should xref a connector pn. That SAMTEC CES-106-01ref IS the socket pn, the mate should fit it. Mouser crosses mating connector series:
Further research show the pins are designed to board mount and the device mounts thru the board, not the panel.
The pins may be avalable with 90° bend, I've not researched all the pin series.
Thanks yeah the part you circled has pins and would work with the dupont, I see that -- but that part is not open collector. I will go that route if I need to (it may end up being easier anyway?)
I think I have a series of connectors that will work: the socket variant encoder, into this RA male/male, into a few of these male/female jumper wires... looks good, right? I don't love having that extra connector, though, just in terms of long term reliability. Maybe I should just figure out the "voltage" output variant and deal with TTL translation...
