SIL Connector with round prongs?

Hi all,

I have an RGB LED strip with a connector already nicely placed onto it. It came with a white SIL connector which plugs nicely into it. I wanted some right-angled SIL connector for attaching this to my board and bought some.

The thing is, the SIL connectors that I've just bought appear to be completely standard, but they will not fit into the RGB LED strip holes. Both SIL connectors fit happily into breadboards and veroboards, so they're the same pitch.

It seems the white one, that came with the RGB LED strip, has round legs, but the other has square legs. They do appear to be about the same diameter / thickness. For the life of me Internet searching has not yielded any results for these SIL connectors so I can buy some more - of course, I would like right-angled ones.

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I don't suppose anyone on here has used these before and knows where I can get them from? The supplier of the RGB LED strip tells me they only have the connectors they've already given me so I can't get help from there.

OK, ongoing research has given me a new term in my vocabulary "turned SIL header" and searching for that now brings up many results for those round pronged SIL headers... but I cannot find even one that is right-angled.

Am I, once again, searching for something that doesn't exist?

How about this? TYCO ELECTRONICS / AMP|281698-4|HEADER, RIGHT ANGLE, 1ROW, 4WAY | Farnell United Kingdom

Even though the photo shows a square pin, when you go to the PDF it shows a round Pin of 0.63 mm.

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Everything I've looked at still seems square. Think I've come across the 'need' for yet another thing that doesn't exist.

The header on that RGB driver looks custom. Common sense says you should scrap the existing connector and put a true standard connector on it, or ask the maker where to get the headers they use in a right angle version, which may not exist.

There is no such thing as a 'standard' SIL header. SIL means simple Single inline. A strip... There are no standards unless specifically named for the pitch and conductor shape.

Yes, I had started to suspect as much. All rather frustrating, this lack of standards... who'd've thought an RGB LED strip would come with a custom header that won't then easily connect to anything else... who'd come up with that idea?

At least the pitch is the same, maybe I could go connect the white header to the black header with some solder, glue, tape... and luck.

I've used lots of that sort of header before - it's just a turned pin 2.54mm pitch SIL header. You want a right angle header - see this link:

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Datasheet:
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I've never come across right angle ones before now - standard vertical turned pin headers are available from most places.

Andrew

Now, that first link is a find! Thank you. I have contacted Toby Electronics to see if that price is correct - it seems very high, but maybe it's 'cos these things are very specialised or it could be 'cos the number of pins on the header is 40 or something.

I shall now see if they respond, but the product looks ideal.

And Hippo shows that knowing the right keywords for what you're looking for is worth gold =-) I've never heard the term turned pin, but it makes 100% sense now that I've heard it, turned means it was turned on a lathe.

Just wanted everyone to know that Toby Electronics provided these for me. Exactly what I wanted and very, very helpful indeed.