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What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

(OP)
What do you call those little single wires with a socket at each end? The little sockets fit nicely into headers that you find on PCB's. I am trying to search for them on Digi but don't know what to call them. Thanks,

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RE: What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

Amp Modu.  Invented by Amp (now Tyco / AMP).  Name meant Amp Modular connector.  A .025 crimped on socket was attached to the wire and it mates with a .025 square pin.  The .025 pin header was convenient since ribbon cable connectors all use the .025 pins as well.

The large version of this is famous from Molex.  That uses larger pins and modular crimped on sockets.  This was the standard for the appliance industry where the large white nylon connectors would hold several wires for the power connections.

RE: What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

(OP)
I'll try to explain more clearly:

It is a single conductor (24AWG stranded) wire about 6 inches long. At each end, there is a socket crimped on (with some shrinktube over it). A person might use this cable for connecting a Dsub9 pin to a header pin on another board, e.g. bringing an RS-232 signal to the input header pin of another circuit.

Like this, except with the opposite sex connector at each end:
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&productId=126324

I searched for the Amp Modu and the socket ends are what we are looking for, but I have not been able to find the complete assembly premade yet.

Thanks

RE: What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

(OP)
telecomguy:

Very close, except I'm afraid those would slip off of their mating pins, since the pins are not individually enclosed in housings.

I will post the part up here when I find them. I've found them to be very handy for prototyping.

RE: What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

Monkeysolder-
When I need a single socket on a lead for probing a header, or for breakout on a header, I use a Molex C-grid terminal with heatshrink on it. Such as Molex 16-02-0097, Digikey WM2513-ND - pick your part based on wire gauge.

I suspect the Jameco male jumpers of your link are just the male version of something like the Molex C-Grid. I have seen demo boards where this is what was used.

RE: What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

I see at the top of the Digikey page that telecomguy referenced, it says "(housing available)".  However, it doesn't say mention the housing anywhere else on that page. Odd.

I do hope you find what you're looking for.  At one point, I was looking for the same thing, but with a male at one end and female at the other. These come with Agilent logic analyzers for use as ground wires.  I checked with Agilent and I seem to recall they wanted over $100 for a pack of 10.  I ended up just buying the individual single-pin crimp connectors and making my own.  Would that be an option for you?

RE: What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

(OP)
sreid -
Yes that looks pretty close to what I am looking for. Ours came in a clear plastic baggie and each jumper was a separate though. Word in the lab is that they may have been part of a logic analyzer kit. There are 25 jumper wires for $130 from Digi:
http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?Ref=227372&Row=774283&Site=US
Expensive!

Comcokid, geekEE - Yep that is the part that I would use if I wanted to make my own, which may be what I end up doing after seeing how much these things are. Anybody want to buy my extras? Heh.

RE: What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

Dang! That link seems to be Kaput!

Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com

RE: What do you call those little wires with sockets at both ends?

That worked!  Thx.  That is correct you cannot C&P Digikey search results..  (Very annoying)

Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com

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