Hantarex monitor connectors info

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I finally had a chance to try out my new Test Pattern Generator the other day ( http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=297247 )

Works absolutely brilliant, love it already !!!

I had to hack in a Hantarex connector in one of the cables I got from Buffet though since I wanted to try it on the NIB monitor that I had put in it and this has a Hantarex style connector.

In fact, I had a great opportunity to do that since I had temporarily hooked up connector using screw terminals and I wanted to make a decent connector on the Ms.Pac harness.

I already have the correct housings and pins (ordered them from RS a long time ago) at hand so I made a neat new connector for the Ms.Pac harness and used the "remainder connector" for the test-cable.

Anyway....I put some info about the Hantarex connectors and pins and where to get them on the KLOV forum but I figured it would be a good idea to save that info here too, so here goes:

The manufacturer today seems to be TE Connectivity in Poland. ( www.tme.eu ).
They sell directly to most countries.

Believe it or not, they are AMP connectors, 3.96 mm (0.156") (however judging by the PDFs they are from Italian origin (Olivetti, used to be a well know computer brand in the 70s/80s).

The series seems to be named  " AMPMODU MOD I "

What I really don't like about these connectors is that there doesn't seem to be a way to extract the pins without a dedicated tool unlike others where you can use a small screwdriver blade from the side of the connector. Otherwise they are really fine to work with.


http://www.tme.eu/en/katalog/?art=280592

Here's a PDF on the housing:
http://www.tme.eu/en/Document/8a6e61653b899bbccb776ef052ac68ac/513081.pdf

This is the 6 pin housing you'll need for the Hantarex:
http://www.tme.eu/en/details/280592/raster-signal-connectors-396mm/te-connectivity/#

And these are the pins:
http://www.tme.eu/en/details/182198-1/raster-signal-connectors-396mm/te-connectivity/#

and the PDF: http://www.tme.eu/en/Document/4f79b949cfe0dae21d60ad85d0cc2def/182198-1.pdf

I don't have a special crimp tool for them, I just use some pliers to "fold" the crimp around the wire. Works for me since I have done only two or three connectors until now.

Using the pin numbering as seen on the PDF this is the pin-out:

1- Blue
2- Green
3- Red
4- Ground
5- Vertical Sync
6- Horizontal Sync

Take another look at my picture for orientation of the connector/wires. The wire colors Blue-Green-Red actually indicate the correct signal so that's a good indication which is which. So....on the picture the blue wire is pin 1 and it's on the bottom of the picture...




For our US friends I added this info:

Mouser seems to be a TE connectivity dealer but they don't seem to carry the AMPMODU MOD I series.

Here's what I found on Digi-Key:

The 6 way housing (=TE Connectivity 280592)

http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?KeyWords=TE%20CONNECTIVITY%20280592&WT.z_header=search_go

And the pins:

http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?vendor=0&keywords=te+connecTIVITY+182198

....and they seem to have plenty of stock

For those who don't want to make their own cables for this tester, Buffett in the US says he'll buy some pins and connectors and can make them on request:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showpost.php?p=2957586&postcount=997