https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It?s only four bucks in onesies?cheap at twice the price!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 15:44:01 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It?s only four bucks in onesies?cheap at twice the price!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
But I can't get a data sheet. Or figure out what the PCB mate is.
"Contact Molex" just bounces between two web pages, runaround. If we
have a regional rep, I can't find them.
Lots of data sheets these days are instant-generated PDFs, which would
be great if they worked.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 15:44:01 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It?s only four bucks in onesies?cheap at twice the price!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
But I can't get a data sheet. Or figure out what the PCB mate is.
"Contact Molex" just bounces between two web pages, runaround. If we
have a regional rep, I can't find them.
Lots of data sheets these days are instant-generated PDFs, which would
be great if they worked.
Molex et al. have this problem: when you bring out a new connector series, you have to look like it?s a full range, even if you did it for one big customer who buys one or two versions.
That leads to a lot of vaporware in connector catalogs.
One of my favorites is this Molex 1-mm three row fanout FFC with matching
0.3 mm jumpers. You can only get the 17-position ones iirc. Beautiful
idea though!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
On 04/06/2026 19:03, Phil Hobbs wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 15:44:01 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It?s only four bucks in onesies?cheap at twice the price!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
But I can't get a data sheet. Or figure out what the PCB mate is.
"Contact Molex" just bounces between two web pages, runaround. If we
have a regional rep, I can't find them.
Lots of data sheets these days are instant-generated PDFs, which would
be great if they worked.
Molex et al. have this problem: when you bring out a new connector
series,
you have to look like it?s a full range, even if you did it for one big
customer who buys one or two versions.
That leads to a lot of vaporware in connector catalogs.
It can be worse.ÿ A long time ago NS launched a new microcontroler
that would have been perfect for the project I was working on.
Unfortunately, they never actually made it.
On 04/06/2026 19:03, Phil Hobbs wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 15:44:01 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It?s only four bucks in onesies?cheap at twice the price!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
But I can't get a data sheet. Or figure out what the PCB mate is.
"Contact Molex" just bounces between two web pages, runaround. If we
have a regional rep, I can't find them.
Lots of data sheets these days are instant-generated PDFs, which would
be great if they worked.
Molex et al. have this problem: when you bring out a new connector series, >> you have to look like it?s a full range, even if you did it for one big
customer who buys one or two versions.
That leads to a lot of vaporware in connector catalogs.
It can be worse. A long time ago NS launched a new microcontroler
that would have been perfect for the project I was working on.
Unfortunately, they never actually made it.
On 6/4/26 17:33, john larkin wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
plenty of other brands that make similar 3.81mm pitch connectors
But we can't get a data sheet and don't know what PCB connector it
would mate with.
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 22:42:12 +0200, Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk> wrote:
On 6/4/26 17:33, john larkin wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
plenty of other brands that make similar 3.81mm pitch connectors
We're designing a small 100 amp 100 volt pulsed laser driver, and
don't have much panel space for the output connector. We figure the
customer could screw his wires into that connector and then plug it
into a mate in the box.
But we can't get a data sheet and don't know what PCB connector it
would mate with.
Might cut over to Phoenix.
On 6/5/26 04:25, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 22:42:12 +0200, Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk> wrote:
On 6/4/26 17:33, john larkin wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
plenty of other brands that make similar 3.81mm pitch connectors
We're designing a small 100 amp 100 volt pulsed laser driver, and
don't have much panel space for the output connector. We figure the
customer could screw his wires into that connector and then plug it
into a mate in the box.
But we can't get a data sheet and don't know what PCB connector it
would mate with.
Might cut over to Phoenix.
there's also TE/AMP plenty to chose from and ime they are all compatible
https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/products/filter/terminal-blocks/headers-plugs-and-sockets/370?s=N4IgTCBcDaIDoBcAEAVAogJQLJIEIBkB5AYQGkkAFfAVQHEkBmCwgZUYDoAOARiyxAC6AXyA
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 15:44:01 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It?s only four bucks in onesies?cheap at twice the price!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
But I can't get a data sheet. Or figure out what the PCB mate is.
"Contact Molex" just bounces between two web pages, runaround. If we
have a regional rep, I can't find them.
Lots of data sheets these days are instant-generated PDFs, which would
be great if they worked.
On 6/4/26 8:53 AM, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 15:44:01 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/0397020003/5254735
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It?s only four bucks in onesies?cheap at twice the price!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
But I can't get a data sheet. Or figure out what the PCB mate is.
"Contact Molex" just bounces between two web pages, runaround. If we
have a regional rep, I can't find them.
Lots of data sheets these days are instant-generated PDFs, which would
be great if they worked.
Digikey has become sloppy with datasheet links. Often like here they
plain don't work or end in an error message. I used to alert them but it
has become so rampant that I've moved on to other distributors.
They used to be hands down the best when looking for parts. Not anymore :-(
<rant_mode_on>
I think it boils down to poor upper management. What does it really
take? Just a simple script or a bot that constantly churns through all
their datasheet links and alerts staff when a link isn't working. But I >guess they can't even figure that out.
<rant_mode_off>
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