Grove Connectors?

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I was wondering about using the Grove shield and cabling but adding my own items at the other end. Obviously, I can cut off the connectors and add my own but it might be nice to use sockets instead.

Does anyone know what part numbers I'd need for a grove compatible header on my stripboard or PCB?

mcb1 · Answer

sensors - What type of connector does the GROVE system use? - Arduino Stack Exchange

jasonwier92 · Answer

Found a few options on the Ebay site (US) for those of us in the US. 180 degree option 90 degree option

COMPACT · Answer

G'Day Shabaz, If you've seen my past projects I always make my own custom cable harnesses and PCBs. It improves neatness markedly. The biggest hurdle I've found with crimping your own cable harnesses is the price of authentic crimping tools. They can be very expensive, very very expensive. As for wire stripping, there's been a huge influx of easy to use wire thermal strippers such as that from Patco, Teledyne, Hakko and Weller. Being thermal there's no risk of nicking any wires. If on a budget I reckon you could kludge your own using SMD tweezers. And for some odd reason the number of strip and cut machines have also multiplied. There's even an e14 community video of building your own one. Non 2.54mm(100mil aka 0.1inch) based pitches have always been the bain of hobbyists and prototypers because they don't easily plug into standard bread and perfboards. The invention of 100mil pitch DIP IC and connector packaging was fantastic, establishing itself in concrete in the 1960's and still being used today. ....and Farnell is owned by Avnet according to the companies press releases. CPC also uses the same web engine as e14 but attached to different databases. It seems that CPC has different vendor distribution arrangements to e14 being local to the UK and Irish markets.

beacon_dave · Answer

"Non 2.54mm(100mil aka 0.1inch) based pitches have always been the bain of hobbyists and prototypers because they don't easily plug into standard bread and perfboards." The 1950's 'D-type' connector 2.74mm / 2.84mm pitch springs to mind... often resulting in IDC D-type to 2 row header cables for prototyping purposes.

mcb1 · Answer

These fit https://www.itead.cc/3-pin-dual-female-to-grove-4-pin-converter-cable-20cm.html However you have some closer to home. https://www.unmannedtechshop.co.uk/grove-cables/ Mark

Workshopshed · Answer

From twitter: @ pinski1_ "these are latching headers so PA rather than the compatible but non-latching PH."

carmelito · Answer

If don't need 100 of them , here is another place that you can by a few. I bought a pack of these when I ordered a couple of sensors from seeedstudio, but these come from china, so it take about 3-4 weeks to get to your mail box with standard shipping . https://www.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Universal-4-pin-connector-p-789.html

shabaz · Answer

I've not seen the crimp pins available on their own, but I have a suggestion why maybe they may not be popular for the hobbyist Grove range: it's a brave hobbyist to want to crimp them, since anything below 2mm pitch ends up needing around 1 mm or finer precision with the stripping and crimping. The pre-made cables are cheap.. I don't use Grove, but I keep some pre-made JST PH, which is the same pitch, since it's not fun crimping those for the same reason. Then there's the ones like JST SH or Molex PicoBlade where it's silly sizes (like 1.25mm pitch or so) and I've no hope of crimping those. Farnell/Newark have pre-crimped wires for PicoBlade, and some JST. 2.54mm and higher is much easier to self-crimp (still time-consuming, so if I can avoid that I do, with some pre-made cables if I get lucky with the length). Where I do have to manually assemble, are RF cables. Not because I'm being cheap - it's way more expensive and difficult to self-crimp - but just because some requirements are just not available and I cannot use extenders or splices. Sometimes I've had to spend an entire day just to make one cable... : ( I need to make three particular cables, and I've been planning them for weeks, because it will take me hours... CPC is owned by Farnell, they share the same warehouse too I believe.. just a more limited range, tailored for consumers/hobbyists.

D_Hersey · Answer

SIL Molex connectors?

Workshopshed · Answer

Those are the cables, I was thinking about the sockets for my own boards so I can use the provided cables. Does this look like the right one? B4B-PH-K-S(LF)(SN) JST (JAPAN SOLDERLESS TERMINALS), Wire-To-Board Connector, Top Entry, 2 mm, 4 Contacts, Header, PH Se… There appears to be a latch on the above pic but not on the linked item.

Workshopshed · Answer

So perhaps these ones? B04B-PASK JST (JAPAN SOLDERLESS TERMINALS), Wire-To-Board Connector, Top Entry, 2 mm, 4 Contacts, Header, PA Series, Thr…

Grove Connectors?

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