Little thread on what’s one of the harder hands-on engineering things I’ve done in my life. A real test of dexterity and eyesight: crimping a wire to put in a connector. A JST PH connector to be precise. What’s crimping? Here is an expert tutorial iotexpert.com/jst-connector-
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The goal is to clamp that little metal bit onto the wire (24 AWG solid core) and snap it into the connector. Two crimped wires in, and you have a 2-pin female connector.
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Did these not come on a reel? For manual crimped prototypes I like to leave a tab on from the reel and then break it off manually if I'm using a 3rd party crimp tool that doesn't cut.
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They did. The videos I saw showed people breaking it off first. I’ll try your way.

