Hi paoleela
From the photo it looks as if there are several connectors with one lead and one with two leads on them. So you would also need a 6in1 connector.
I had trouble with cutting one down from a hard drive ribbon because the wires were so fine, were slippery and hard to solder, and I managed eventually to repeatedly break a wire.
The connector supplied at first to me from DIY, on a complete lead and connector, was still not as robust as I needed and again I managed eventually to break a wire!
The wires were attached to metal connectors slipped onto the very fine pins and I found I could not repair that set up satisfactorily.
Of three other connectors I tried the best one was from DIY. It was the 'JP1/JP1.1/JP1.2/JP1.3 Socket Extension Adapter' and had substantial pins to solder the wires to which seemed to be moulded into a block but $9.99 + $5 postage.
If you went China & DIY socket Extension Adapter that would amount to $25.40 (cf. DIY complete JP1.3 lead $35).
You would have the bother of soldering the wires but as follows you would have a lead with strong cable-to-plug connection, which I found otherwise to be problematic.
- You can cut down the pins to be a bit shorter than some tiny copper tubes.
- Clean out the inside of the five tubes.
- Solder the tubes onto the pins.
- Put shrink wrap wide enough to acommodate the plug on the whole cable, followed by another piece of shrink wrap to enclose the pins, and finally a piece of very fine shrink wrap on each wire, to support its connection to the individual pin.
- solder the five wires into the open ends of the five tubes, already in place on the pins.
- (*Important) Test the plug to make sure the wies are on the right pins!
- shrink the series of three types of shrink wrap.
It was a bother to source the tubes and correct sizes of shrink wrap, and did not save the possible $10, but in the end I did two leads like that and both have been reliable.
From the stock I had to get in, I can send you 5 tubes and the required lengths of shrink wrap in a letter, to save some of the bother if you want to go that route, especially since another member did something similar for me at one stage
Regards
Chris
