I am connecting my arduino to a 5V transformer, which provides USB power and also power via an XHP connector. I have purchased some XHP connectors (see attached) and every google / youtube hit tells me how to crimp the left-hand connector. How do I connect a wire to the right-hand connector? Is this just a normal solder? Or do i need another connector?
Cheers, Ian
You don't, you insert the pins into some sort of board and solder those pins in place.
So, how do I connect 2 set of wires together using these connectors? Or do I cut them off and resolder them to another type of connector?
You need to draw out the circuit you are trying to use them in; it's not at all clear what you want.
larry, appreciate your attempt but google refers to male as those with a protruding pin (on the right of that last diagram). Your labels appear to be backwards.
My kit and the most recent picture above have the bottom half of the right-hand connector (the housing with the pins in) but not the top half of the connector (where the wires go in). What is the name of this connector?
Is a connector really needed? Then buy the wired plug/sockert versions.
Otherwise cut off the connector and connect the wires with a joiner block.
Or cut/solder the wires and cover with heatshrink.
Leo..
You might need crimping pin and ratcheting crimper like the ones included in this kit?
It's very small, so I prefer a ready-made one like @LarryD showed.
The mating connector that OP has bought is a circuitboard connector, designed to solder onto a board, not meant for crimping wires on.
Leo..
Good to know, so does anyone know the product name / specification for the connector that allows a wire to be connected rather than a board?
does anyone know the product name / specification for the connector that allows a wire to be connected rather than a board?
All pictures in #4 show connectors with wires
No specific name. They are usually referred to as wire to board or wire to wire connectors.
