[Shop-talk] automotive connector breakout wires

[David Scheidt]

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 11:21 AM Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you're trying to connect with the connector unplugged, the "easiest"
> thing to do might be to get some male and female pins and make jumper wires
> with them .   Finding the correct pins is the hard part of the easy
> solution.
>
>
If you can figure out which ones you need, getting the right pins is easy,
and even real OEM ones are usually pretty cheap.  The problem is there are
lots of choices, and they all require their own crimping dies, so it's hard
to keep them on hand just in case. For testing, you can probably get away
with the wrong tool, or soldering them on.  But if you're repairing a
connector, you want the right crimper; poorly crimped pins and socket ends
are a source of maddening intermittent failures and risk deciding a part
has failed when it's just the wire end that's bad.

One very real advantage of using the right pins is you can get a good sense
if you have a pin fit problem, which causes failures, often intermittent.
hard to do that with a probe or stick pin.

-- 
David Scheidt
dmscheidt at gmail.com
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