I am just trying to assist my Father-In-Law who is long time Ham operator. W6HG

http://www.virtualvillage.com/stepp....html?utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=shcomp

He needs a connector that mates with the white 6-pin connector pictured in URL above.

If you recognize the connector, please let me know what it is called.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

 

The connector is a "box header". To properly identify the thing, you need to determine the pitch - distance between pins. That can be fun, as several different types use either metric or SAE measurements. It's really fun to determine if it's 3mm or .156".

Anyway, once you have the pitch, you can look for terminals that will mate with the box header on the PCB.

 

Thanks for the response & I am always willing to learn & RTFM.
Where can I learn more about these "SAE measurements" involving circuit board connectors?

 

Did I make that sound too complex? Sorry. You just use a ruler to see what the distance is from one pin to another. The spacing will be in millimeters or in some decimal fraction of an inch, generally .1" or .156". Molex is one manufacturer that makes such connectors - http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Molex/53014-0410/?qs=TLs3Kb%2bkMqKk8s1WRHwRGw==

 

If I had to guess it would be a 2mm connector from JST

http://www.jst.com/

 

I was able to find & obtain the correct connector!

 

I got the EXACT connector I wanted thanks to the advice I got here!
The bad news is that the connector came without any metal innards.
The board has vertical metal pins on it.
The newly arrived connector fits nicely over the pins.
1) what is the proper name for the metal parts which would go into the connector
to make contact with the pins.
To my way of thinking "female pin" is an oxymoron.
2) I suspect these things come in different sizes.
So what is proper way to specify the size required for my new connector?
FWIW - The Connector was made by JST, but I got mine from DigiKey using
P/N 455-2218-ND
CONN HOUSING 2.5MM XH 6POS
Thanks In Advance!

 

What you're looking for is the contacts.

Digikey links to the them under "Associated product" at the bottom (one of the advantages of Digikey, most others don't do this)
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=455-2218-ND

You need to pick which kind you want... they come in different sizes for different wire and with different coatings, and also Digikey has them in different packages. There's the 'cut-tape' which you can actually buy or you can order entire reels of several thousand under a different part number.

This one is AWG 22-28 (probably what you want)
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=455-1135-1-ND

This one is AWG 26-30,
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=455-2261-1-ND

You can then find the horribly expensive crimp tool under associated product, which again is different for different sizes

For example,
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=455-1136-ND

It's just $467!

Do you have a crimp tool of some kind? I don't recommend pliers, they don't work well and do a very poor job.
This one has been very useful for me, though I can't guarantee it will work well, with the 26-30 contacts it almost definitely won't work well.
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=WM9999-ND

The smaller contacts like this tend to require finer tools.

 

Lots of times you are able to get the mating connectors from the same place where you got the module you're trying to connect to. I looked quickly and didn't see one, but it might be worth a call. The good part is that they'll often have a 'pigtail' version, one with short lengths of wire already attached.

Or, usually, the manual (maybe wishful thinking) should have a part number for a mating connector. You may actually want a 0.1" spacing rather than 2.5mm (they're almost the same). The 0.1" will give you many more options for maybe finding a pigtail version.

I also glanced around at a couple of sites (Digikey, Mouser) and wasn't able to immediately see a pigtail version there, but I also wasn't sure of exactly what I was looking for. A 0.1" is much more of a standard part than 2.5mm but I didn't look too much since it wasn't an exact match for what you listed.

 

They're specifying 2.54 mm now too in place of 0.1"

 

They're specifying 2.54 mm now too in place of 0.1"

But what I'm saying is that 2.5mm is a different search selection in the search engines than 2.54mm.

There are metric families of connectors, with numbers like 1.0mm, 1.5mm, 2.0mm and such, and a separate set of inch equivalent with numbers like 1.27mm, 1.91mm, 2.54mm, etc.

2.5mm will gives you many fewer 'hits' than 2.54mm/0.10".

 

Gotcha' I mainly use Mouser and they've got choices for both which, oddly enough, produce different results even though the size is the same. Their database goes on what the manufacturer specifies them as.