Stepper Motor Connector

Not sure if this is the correct forum, but it seemed as close as any other.

I was at a friend of mine who runs a re-cycling business today. He has been stripping printers and copiers and saving the motors for me. Today I picked up a bucket full of small stepper motors. But, and a big but, they all need cables. The connector on most of them is a 6 wire flat connector with a section cut out.

My problem is they recycled the cables and just kept the motors. So I need to find new cables and I have been looking for about 4 hours on google with no success, probably because I have no idea what terms to use in the search.

Here's a photo of the plug. Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Image from Original Post Reply #NN so we don't have to download it. See this Image Guide

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You can buy strips of header sockets like are on an Uno or Mega. I wonder would they fit the pins? Then you could solder wires to them?

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Robin2:
Image from Original Post Reply #NN so we don't have to download it. See this Image Guide

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Robin,

I was in the process of doing what the article recommends when you posted. I have to wait 5 minutes to re post and since there is no way to "inline" and attachment it takes me at least 5 minutes to put the image on the page. Sorry, just seems I was a little too slow this time.

Robin2:
You can buy strips of header sockets like are on an Uno or Mega. I wonder would they fit the pins? Then you could solder wires to them?

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I think the header pins are male. I need female for the connector. I think what I need is something like the jumpers that come with or can be purchased for a breadboard. The wire is pretty small, probably AWG 20 or 22 is the only problem I see. It seems to me I should be able to find either connector and cable pre wired or find a source of connectors that I can use to build cables. If I knew the name of the connector type I could probably find what I am looking for.

Thanks

Check www.pololu.org for crimp housing and terminated wire. Or crimp connectors. Will be just what you need.

Many thanks. I'll do it right now.
Found it. Here is the name if anyone else needs it:

JST 2.0mm PH 6-Pin Female Housing Connector

ov10fac:
I was in the process of doing what the article recommends when you posted.

Sorry for being too quick.

 think the header pins are male.  I need female for the connector.

That is why I suggested the sockets that are on an Uno - we refer to them as pins, but they are in fact female sockets.

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Robin
No apology necessary. Just wanted you to know I didn't blow off your link to the image posting thread.

Thanks for the clarification on pins vs socket. And we wonder why people have difficulty learning English

ov10fac:
And we wonder why people have difficulty learning English

My favourite one is the advertisement outside the Theatre that reads "Macbeth pronounced success"

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I found the connector on Digi-Key site. The connectors are very inexpensive as are the crimp pins, but the crimper is anywhere from $500 to $1000. That's way over my price range. So I found some connectors that have pretty much the same pins. I removed the pins and clipped off the little tab the pins seem to have. Then just pushed the pins on the motor pins, covered with shrink tube and I think that will give me a workable solution for now.

Lots of things can be satisfactorily crimped with a pair of pliers.

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Yep, just have to think out of the box!