Connector-- vocabulary breakdown.

[Gregory L. Hansen]

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

 

[Martin Riddle]

Pin Jacks?

ah, I give up.

 

[Rich Grise]

Pin Jacks?

Or tip jacks.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[James T. White]

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. "
-- Gene Spafford, 1992

Martin and Rich are right on what you call them. The ones I've seen were
manufactured by Johnson Components and Keystone. Should be available from
Digikey and Mouser.

 

[Rich Grise]

They are called 'hard to find'.

http://www.newark.com/NewarkWebComm...+jacks&newSearch=true&Nty=1&y=0&Ntk=gensearch
;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Luhan Monat]

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

They are called 'hard to find'.

 

[Howard Eisenhauer]

They are called 'hard to find'.

Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.

Fahnestock

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/621/952.pdf

The ubiquitous "no tool" speaker connectors (and the no-tool terminal
blocks) are more impressive, but they had to wait for plastic
injection molding to be invented.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[keith]

Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

No clue what they are or why I'd want a bushel, but they appear to be
useful in arming bombs.

From: http://www.ordnance.org/gpb.htm

"NOTE: Safety clips are used vice Fahnstock clips unless otherwise
specified. Normally, arming wire assemblies are shipped in spiral-wound
fiber tubes, over packed in a wooden box. Generally, the safety
Fahnstock clips are packed in the tubes with the arming wires. The most
commonly used arming wire assemblies are listed in table below. Arming
wire installation procedures are discussed in the TRAMAN where the use
of arming wire assemblies is required."

If you really want to buy 'em (whatever 'em is)...

Ah! That's what they are! Didn't know what they were called, but no I
wouldn't have a use for one, much less a bushel.
http://www.pelletlab.com/images/E3_web.jpg

$26 for 200 clips.
http://www.pelletlab.com/index_electricity.htm

They don't seem to be rare at all:
but...http://www.eham.net/classifieds/detail/59944

 

[Active8]

Fahnestock

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/621/952.pdf

The ubiquitous "no tool" speaker connectors (and the no-tool terminal
blocks) are more impressive, but they had to wait for plastic
injection molding to be invented.

I like the way RCA did the speaker terminals on my boom box. They
look like the 2nd set of spkr terms on that Mouser page, but no
solder terminals.

The PCB slides into a notched out or cut out looking version of the
terminal so it's up against the spring clamp, which IIRC is a metal
contact, but it could just as well be an insulator.

The wire goes thru the hole and lays on a PCB pad. When you release
the lever, it clamps the wire down to the PCB.

Smart and cheap, but a slight PITA to slide it all together.
Sometimes the ME that goes into an electronic product/part is as
impressive as the circuit/part itself.

 

[Luhan Monat]

Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.

My friend in High School used to build entrire projects with those!

 

[Active8]

My friend in High School used to build entrire projects with those!

I saw something as a kid that used those and I think it was one of
my train sets. Maybe the track power connection.

 

[Howard Eisenhauer]

Fahnestock

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/621/952.pdf

The ubiquitous "no tool" speaker connectors (and the no-tool terminal
blocks) are more impressive, but they had to wait for plastic
injection molding to be invented.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

By Golly! I thought they had gone the way of the #6 Dry cell-

And a nice price break on the bushel load too .


Do they have Pine board chassis kits too???


H.

 

[Gregory L. Hansen]

Fahnestock

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/621/952.pdf

The ubiquitous "no tool" speaker connectors (and the no-tool terminal
blocks) are more impressive, but they had to wait for plastic
injection molding to be invented.

Cool. I'd wondered what happened to them, but I never knew what they were
called, either.

 

[Don Lancaster]

We don't tell those kind around here.

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voice: (928)428-4073 email: [email protected]

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[Guest]

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

They're called "phone jacks", because, historically, headphones used a pair
of tips that size. Nowdays of course we use a 1/4" TRS jack for that
purpose, but the name stuck.

How many do you need? I have a few.

Norm Strong

 

[Chris]

<snip> Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.

If you ask for Fahnestock clips, you'll get better results.

Found on the way to something else:

http://w1af.harvard.edu/1abf.html

An Antique QSL Card from Harris Fahnestock

also:

http://www.eham.net/articles/3943

with more information and another card.

Fahnestock clips are still available in many places, although they're
more expensive than they used to be. For production testing of
subassemblies with flying leads, they can still be the first choice.
Cheap, easy to use, easily replaceable, good current rating, and just
about impossible for a test operator to hurt themselves. The wire
hole's too small to be a pinch point.

Thanks for the detour.
Chris

 

[no_one]

The OP could be describing what we call "tip jacks" with a "hole" about 1 mm
in diameter.
http://www.ebycompany.com/tip-test-jacks.shtml

Or alternatively "banana jacks" with the "hole' of about 3 mm.
http://alectroncorp.com/alectroncorpstore/ST-351B.html

 

[Luhan Monat]

http://www.mouser.com/index.cfm?han...uctid=232249&e_categoryid=126&e_pcodeid=52400

 

[Gregory L. Hansen]

The OP could be describing what we call "tip jacks" with a "hole" about 1 mm
in diameter.
http://www.ebycompany.com/tip-test-jacks.shtml

Tip jacks are the ones I had in mind.

But I'd been wondering why the other end of the probes aren't simple
banana. They're long and have a shroud, I'm not sure I can get a banana
in there.