Talk:Molex connector

message: Somebody please add Molex 3-pin computer fan connector.  I am busy working on Dell fan work-around article in Dell Community Support Forum and other boards :-) Ther is already some art posted on Computer fan. Thanks! Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 03:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Molex 3-pin

message: The 4 pin disk drive power connector was used on the first 5.25 inch floppy drive, the Shugart SA400 in 1976. :Image:Shugart SA400.jpg  The original IBM PC (Model 5150) used this style of floppy drive. 
The Shugart SA-400 OEM Maunal (Feb. 1977 edition, page 18) identifies the part as the AMP Mate-N-Lok connector. AMP P/N 350211-1 for the one on the drive and AMP P/N 1-480424-0 for the one with the wires.
The connector is an AMP connector, not a Molex connector. (Just to keep the history correct.)  Nancy L. Webster 16:11, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting, i wonder how disk drive power connectors came to be known as "molex connectors" then. Nancy L. Webster 16:11, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disk Drive Power Connector

message: Certain Molex connectors are used for providing power to [...] floppy disk drives.
What about the Berg connector? --Abdull 14:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I know, the 4-pin Molex 8981 connector was originally used to connect 5.25" Floppy disk drives, before the introduction of th 3.5" floppy and before CD and HDD drives where commonplace on the PC. --MrBurns (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Floppy drive 

message: In the car audio business many of the connectors are refereed to as Molex connectors. I belive this should be mentioned somewhere in the article as well.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.255.22.2 (talk) 17:23, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Beyond that, AMP/TE and Tyco-branded Mate-n-Lok connectors are widely used (in form factors nothing like the PC components) for a variety of automotive and other machine connections, in a least 1- to 12-pin configurations (on Amazon, I see 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 6-, 8-, 9-, and 12-pin versions, sometimes in assortment sets).  And, yeah, they are also sometimes referred to as Molex connectors.  So, the article is a bit misleading in suggesting that the 4-pin thing commonly found in PCs is "the" thing called an AMP Mate-n-Lok. It's just one of many.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  08:19, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automotive 

message: We should address what kinds of crimping tools are used to assemble these connectors, and the basic means of their inner workings (short of WP:NOT#HOWTO, of course). It's simply unclear to the average person what is going on inside them and how they are made, or even that it's possible to put them together without a machine. To forestall later how-to instructional insertions, maybe add to "External links" a video tutorial on it, especially if we can find a high-rated one on YouTube that isn't spammy.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:02, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tools, and connector assembly 

message: The current "Pin out" section of the "AMP four-pin Mate-n-Lok" info box is somewhat confusing. The diagram (and the image above) are of a male connector with female pins, whereas the text lists the pins on the female connector with male pins. Consequently, readers are liable to get the voltage pins completely backwards. Suggest changing either the diagram or the accompanying text.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.251.71 (talk) 05:21, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pinout mismatch