Connector-- vocabulary breakdown.

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I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

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Pin Jacks?

ah, I give up.

"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message news:d0djgk$ffr$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. "
-- Gene Spafford, 1992
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On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:44:44 +0000, Martin Riddle top-posted:

Pin Jacks?

"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message news:d0djgk$ffr$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?
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Or tip jacks.

Cheers!
Rich
 
"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:d0djgk$ffr$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. "
-- Gene Spafford, 1992
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Martin and Rich are right on what you call them. The ones I've seen were
manufactured by Johnson Components and Keystone. Should be available from
Digikey and Mouser.
 
Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?
Click to expand...
They are called 'hard to find'.

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Luhan Monat (luhanis 'at' yahoo 'dot' com)
"The future is not what it used to be..."
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
 
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:31:17 -0800, Luhan Monat wrote:

Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?


They are called 'hard to find'.
Click to expand...

http://www.newark.com/NewarkWebCommerce/newark/en_US/endecaSearch/searchPage2.jsp?x=0&Ntt=tip+jacks&newSearch=true&Nty=1&y=0&Ntk=gensearch
;-)

Cheers!
Rich
 
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:31:17 -0800, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?


They are called 'hard to find'.
Click to expand...

Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.
 
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 04:24:36 GMT, the renowned Howard Eisenhauer
<howarde@REMOVECAPShfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:31:17 -0800, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?


They are called 'hard to find'.


Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.
Click to expand...
Fahnestock

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/621/952.pdf

The ubiquitous "no tool" speaker connectors (and the no-tool terminal
blocks) are more impressive, but they had to wait for plastic
injection molding to be invented.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Howard Eisenhauer wrote:
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:31:17 -0800, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:


Gregory L. Hansen wrote:

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?


They are called 'hard to find'.



Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.
Click to expand...
My friend in High School used to build entrire projects with those!

--
Luhan Monat (luhanis 'at' yahoo 'dot' com)
"The future is not what it used to be..."
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
 
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:43:04 -0500, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
Fahnestock

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/621/952.pdf

The ubiquitous "no tool" speaker connectors (and the no-tool terminal
blocks) are more impressive, but they had to wait for plastic
injection molding to be invented.
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I like the way RCA did the speaker terminals on my boom box. They
look like the 2nd set of spkr terms on that Mouser page, but no
solder terminals.

The PCB slides into a notched out or cut out looking version of the
terminal so it's up against the spring clamp, which IIRC is a metal
contact, but it could just as well be an insulator.

The wire goes thru the hole and lays on a PCB pad. When you release
the lever, it clamps the wire down to the PCB.

Smart and cheap, but a slight PITA to slide it all together.
Sometimes the ME that goes into an electronic product/part is as
impressive as the circuit/part itself.
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Best Regards,
Mike
 
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:38:09 -0800, Luhan Monat wrote:
Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.

My friend in High School used to build entrire projects with those!
Click to expand...
I saw something as a kid that used those and I think it was one of
my train sets. Maybe the track power connection.
--
Best Regards,
Mike
 
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:43:04 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 04:24:36 GMT, the renowned Howard Eisenhauer
howarde@REMOVECAPShfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:31:17 -0800, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?


They are called 'hard to find'.


Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.

Fahnestock

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/621/952.pdf

The ubiquitous "no tool" speaker connectors (and the no-tool terminal
blocks) are more impressive, but they had to wait for plastic
injection molding to be invented.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
Click to expand...

By Golly! I thought they had gone the way of the #6 Dry cell-

And a nice price break on the bushel load too :).


Do they have Pine board chassis kits too???


H.
 
In article <be2l211b1pbhpeo4n9s9k37hrp7p2pc081@4ax.com>,
Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 04:24:36 GMT, the renowned Howard Eisenhauer
howarde@REMOVECAPShfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:31:17 -0800, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?


They are called 'hard to find'.


Hah! You think those are bad? Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.

Fahnestock

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/621/952.pdf

The ubiquitous "no tool" speaker connectors (and the no-tool terminal
blocks) are more impressive, but they had to wait for plastic
injection molding to be invented.
Click to expand...
Cool. I'd wondered what happened to them, but I never knew what they were
called, either.

--
"Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler."
-- Albert Einstein
 
James T. White wrote:
"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:d0djgk$ffr$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?
Click to expand...
We don't tell those kind around here.

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"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:d0djgk$ffr$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...
I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?
Click to expand...
They're called "phone jacks", because, historically, headphones used a pair
of tips that size. Nowdays of course we use a 1/4" TRS jack for that
purpose, but the name stuck.

How many do you need? I have a few.

Norm Strong
 
Howard Eisenhauer wrote:

snip> Try walking into your local supplier
someday & asking for a bushel of Fahnstock clips-

H.
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If you ask for Fahnestock clips, you'll get better results.

Found on the way to something else:

http://w1af.harvard.edu/1abf.html

An Antique QSL Card from Harris Fahnestock

also:

http://www.eham.net/articles/3943

with more information and another card.

Fahnestock clips are still available in many places, although they're
more expensive than they used to be. For production testing of
subassemblies with flying leads, they can still be the first choice.
Cheap, easy to use, easily replaceable, good current rating, and just
about impossible for a test operator to hurt themselves. The wire
hole's too small to be a pinch point.

Thanks for the detour.
Chris
 
The OP could be describing what we call "tip jacks" with a "hole" about 1 mm
in diameter.
http://www.ebycompany.com/tip-test-jacks.shtml

Or alternatively "banana jacks" with the "hole' of about 3 mm.
http://alectroncorp.com/alectroncorpstore/ST-351B.html


<normanstrong@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:5MCdnbwTLt2U3LbfRVn-rQ@comcast.com...
"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:d0djgk$ffr$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

They're called "phone jacks", because, historically, headphones used a
pair of tips that size. Nowdays of course we use a 1/4" TRS jack for that
purpose, but the name stuck.

How many do you need? I have a few.

Norm Strong
Click to expand...
 
http://www.mouser.com/index.cfm?handler=displayproduct&lstdispproductid=232249&e_categoryid=126&e_pcodeid=52400
--
Luhan Monat (luhanis 'at' yahoo 'dot' com)
"The future is not what it used to be..."
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
 
In article <dDHWd.2685$cN6.1766@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
no_one <no_one@earthlink.net> wrote:
The OP could be describing what we call "tip jacks" with a "hole" about 1 mm
in diameter.
http://www.ebycompany.com/tip-test-jacks.shtml
Click to expand...
Tip jacks are the ones I had in mind.

But I'd been wondering why the other end of the probes aren't simple
banana. They're long and have a shroud, I'm not sure I can get a banana
in there.




Or alternatively "banana jacks" with the "hole' of about 3 mm.
http://alectroncorp.com/alectroncorpstore/ST-351B.html


normanstrong@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:5MCdnbwTLt2U3LbfRVn-rQ@comcast.com...

"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:d0djgk$ffr$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

They're called "phone jacks", because, historically, headphones used a
pair of tips that size. Nowdays of course we use a 1/4" TRS jack for that
purpose, but the name stuck.

How many do you need? I have a few.

Norm Strong
Click to expand...

--
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is
poetry, imagination." -- Max Planck
 
to keep you from getting electrocuted if you connect the one end to the
circuit and forget to put the other end into the meter.


"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:d0get2$hrb$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...
In article <dDHWd.2685$cN6.1766@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
no_one <no_one@earthlink.net> wrote:
The OP could be describing what we call "tip jacks" with a "hole" about 1
mm
in diameter.
http://www.ebycompany.com/tip-test-jacks.shtml

Tip jacks are the ones I had in mind.

But I'd been wondering why the other end of the probes aren't simple
banana. They're long and have a shroud, I'm not sure I can get a banana
in there.





Or alternatively "banana jacks" with the "hole' of about 3 mm.
http://alectroncorp.com/alectroncorpstore/ST-351B.html


normanstrong@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:5MCdnbwTLt2U3LbfRVn-rQ@comcast.com...

"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
news:d0djgk$ffr$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...

I'm having a little vocabulary breakdown. What are the connectors
called
that you can plug the skinny part of a multimeter probe into, and where
is a good place to get them?

They're called "phone jacks", because, historically, headphones used a
pair of tips that size. Nowdays of course we use a 1/4" TRS jack for
that
purpose, but the name stuck.

How many do you need? I have a few.

Norm Strong





--
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is
poetry, imagination." -- Max Planck
Click to expand...
 
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