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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?

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    The most probable connector is the NSTech 1125 Series.

    The connectors are available from Seedstudios and hopefully with this information element14 will as well.

  • 0 in reply to beacon_dave

    That's just the PCB connector, how about the inline connector and crimp pins?

    How about links for the standard Element14 site - I just checked the UK, USA and Australian regions but can't find any listings.

     

    Do you know how CPC fits into the corporate structure of Avnet?

    It seems only to service the UK and Ireland.

  • 0 in reply to COMPACT

    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.

  • 0 in reply to shabaz

    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.

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    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.

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