This snap indicates that the pin has been successfully installed. Push your pin into your connector and you should hear a snap. While this is not a requirement, this is a very common configuration. A good rule of thumb when placing your pins into connectors is to place female pins into the male connector and vice versa. Take a look at your pin and see if it’s male or female. Let’s now place our Molex pin we crimped into the correct Molex connector. This is known as Tim’s Patented Double Squeeze method. It’s good to squeeze the pin using the crimper a second time from a sideways position to make sure that it’s making a good connection to the wire. Now that you have correctly placed the pin in your crimper, place the wire you stripped earlier into the open end of the pin and then squeeze the crimper. It sounds silly but it really does help you remember. A good way to remember this is to use the tee pee and indian analogy from the video. Place the pin in the correct slot of your crimper with the open part of the pin towards the floor. Pick up your D-Sub Pin Crimper and one of your Molex pins. This should give you enough wire to make a good connection with the Molex pin. Take the wires that you want to place the Molex connector on and strip them about 1/4 of an inch from the top. Once we have our Molex connectors, we can begin our project. Make sure you order both male and female Molex connectors and pins as you need both to make the connection. There are more sizes (such as 0.100″ and 0.62″) and types (such as flat) available but we have found that 0.93″ is easier to work with for jobs that require round pins. For this job, we will be using size 0.93″ Molex round pins and 2 pin Molex connectors.
Today, we’re going to discuss how to install a Molex connector into your arcade monitor power cord.īefore we get started, it’s important to have the Molex connectors and pins you’re going to use on hand. Molex connectors are great to use in places where you might have to disconnect wiring in the future as it eliminates the need to rewire and solder. The brand Molex has become so popular that, like Kleenex, it has become the name by which all connectors are called. Most people tend to use Molex as a term for any and all types of connectors, however, Molex is actually a brand of connector. In this post, we’ll discuss how to install a Molex connector into your preexisting arcade cabinet wiring. Molex connectors can provide a handy way to easily remove or replace items (such as a monitor chassis or control panel) without rewiring.