What type of connectors are these? Please Help!
 

Hello Everyone,
I am trying to figure out what type of connectors are used on the 3 racing light led light kit to plug the LED strands into the control box. I'm talking about the small white plugs on the ends of the lights strands that plug into the control box. They are the exact same thing that the axial light strands and control board use on my SCX10 and they seem to be almost standard among the scale light kit makes.

They look very similar to a micro JST XH type of plug but after much searching and photo comparisons between these plugs and the micro JST type plugs on can find on eBay and the net, I can tell they are not quite the same and I am having no luck finding anything about them on any site. Hopefully someone can help me figure out what type of plugs I am trying to find. I would like to be able to just wire up my own light strands without having to hack apart the ones that come with kit in order to use the plugs.

Thanks!
-Tyler

Are they the JST RCY connectors?

http://www.jst.com/home8.html JST RCY connector....
http://www.jst.com/index.html JST main page.....

Thanks for the replies but unfortunately the RCY connectors are not what I am looking for. I do have some of the RCY connectors and they are used in some light applications that I have such as on the traxxas summit lights and light bar. These plugs I seek a name for are much smaller and I have only seen them in white.

Thanks,
-Tyler

Nah they are not a JST, they are the same as the Tamiya LED's shown here:
http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/ite...oduct-id=53911

got a picture?

Sorry for butting in but I just finished putting a mixture of Tamiya and 3Racing LEDs in one of my trucks so I had them on hand.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/P3030050.jpg

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/P3030051.jpg

Hey no problem at all SuperRoo, and thanks actually since I did not have an easy way to post a picture. Those indeed are the connectors I trying to find a name for.

Thanks,
-Tyler

I'm not finding much on these, but I did find this site with an LED light set that says the connector is a "PH connector"

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/37...LED_Light.html

Axial doesn't know either...

Those look like jst-ph connectors...

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/Dk...me=455-1165-ND

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/Dk...me=455-1704-ND

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/Dk...=455-1313-1-ND

Good job...I even tried searching my digikey catalog...but if you've ever seen one...they're HUGE and have tiny print and pictures. So that site I found was right about them being PH connectors. I tried searching Google Images but couldn't come up with anything...glad you found it!

Yea i have digi key, mouser and another electronics catalog here, thats just electronics, i have catalogs for hunting stuff, car stuff, tools, and more...but i just went to digi-key.com and searched jst ph and it showed up...if you know what your looking for online is the way to go, if your trying to compare stuff or find stuff in a general range then catalog is better, imo...

But when i was looking for the connectors on the speky radios for my backlight kits (i spent hours looking) i went through lots of pictures of connectors, and once i seen that i remembered it was jst then you mention ph, so wola. jst ph

Hey thanks for all the help everyone I knew someone here would know how to figure this out. After you guys told me what they were, I was able to find some of these connectors with leads here:
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1116
for a great price, now I just have to figure out how many I will need.

Thanks for the help!
-Tyler

i was going to make this same thread a couple of days ago. I did some digging on ebay and found these

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

I'll let you guys know how it works out when I get my order.

Thanks for the info losikid, I can finally fill the other 10 ports on my light sets. Now if I can just figure out what resistors the Tamiya and 3Racing light units use inside and will they handle 30,000 mcd led's.

I no, I no, Pix!!!

Thanks for the info and research guys. I was wondering what connectors those were as well! "thumbsup"