Hey all, I need one of those "explain it like i'm five" posts helping me with buying some Molex style plug in connectors so I can get a bit of a stock and have THE CORRECT stuff. I just did an order with mouser, to buy some connectors for my power supply on a SYS11, I got them, they were a bit big for my application, but I got it done and works fine. BUT, I am looking for someone to dumb it right down for me so I can make an order (with the right supplies).
The problem is I look on mouser or digikey and it's absolutely overwhelming with so many products to try and choose the right shit on there.

I want to have some 2, 3, 4 position plugs on hand. for say, this type of application below in the pic (its just an example).

What are the molex style for changing out board connectors also instead of the punch down ones?

What exact size and parts list would I need? If someone would help out I would greatly appreciate it. Sorry if I'm just too dumb here, but you may help out many people with this!

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OK, I see these on PBL, I actually hadn't thought of looking there tbh.

https://www.pinballlife.com/molex-093-connectors-and-pins.html

Its a start anyway.

Are those trifurcon ones the style you use on header pin connections?

I think these?

https://www.pinballlife.com/molex-crimp-stuff-connectors-and-parts.html

THANK YOU for the info for Great Plains Electronics, he has nice pictures (dummyproofs it a bit for me!) easy to navigate site. Better for my brain!

Hey all!! I’m back trying to source some pins & connectors .100 & .156

I need these following crimp pins in .100 and .156 and female housings in several different # of positions.
If anyone has a quick part info on Digikey, I’d be forever grateful. I search the site and i can get the search results down to the thousands but cant seem to come across the right stuff. So frustrating. My last order was GPE and they were so easy to buy from!

Fixing up an old Bally, so I need multiple .100 and .156 female connectors

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Hey for anyone trying to figure out how to order pinball needs from Digikey, I have found a way to search your needs with cross referencing off GPE old website for parts. Took my feeble brain a while to figure this out, you may already have. Real tough since GPE went out of business and retired.

Here's what I did. I copy 'n pasted the molex type and the part into Digikey search. Otherwise I found it near impossible to root through all the results you get from Digikey search.

Also for the correct crimp pins, I found these to be the 2.54mm or .100" small crimp

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Oh sweet, thx, Would never have known there is others like that out there. The tough part is the navigation. If you have an absolute dummy proof product finder that is helpful.