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Topic: What kind of electrical connectors are on the solidoodle hot end?

I've never seen them before, I can't find any information about them...

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Re: What kind of electrical connectors are on the solidoodle hot end?

Similar to these.
http://www.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch … p;PV5=4648

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Re: What kind of electrical connectors are on the solidoodle hot end?

Thank you for identifying them in digikey!

So, they are MTA 100 connectors.  And, they are color coded based on wire size.

It would have been nice for Solidoodle to use standard connectors so I could avoid buying them online.  Oh well...

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Re: What kind of electrical connectors are on the solidoodle hot end?

Usually when I am fixing a project and can't find the matching connectors I just switch both sides to something else that still meets spec.

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Re: What kind of electrical connectors are on the solidoodle hot end?

Make sense, but I have also screwed things up that way sometimes....

In this case, since the electrical output is sensored via the temperature sensor, it probably doesn't matter.

For other applications it might though.  Thanks for reminding me that I have that option!