#12 Five Tricks for working with Dupont wires
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- I often use cheap prefabricated Dupont wires in my Arduino, ESP8266, STM32, or Raspbery Pi projects. This enables "professional" looks without crimping the wires myself.
Here I show five tricks to increase the quality of your projects as well as gain time in cabelling the parts together.
I use only simple aids like Super Glue, tweezers, and empty Dupont housings or shells.
Please watch my update before you purchase a crimping tool: • #39 SN-28B Chinese Cri...
Empty shell assortment: bit.ly/2lFJXb6
I'm getting back to electronics after about 25 years because I'm trying to teach my little son a few things. I seemed a little lost with the change that has happened. Your advice is fantastic and I found the second half after 3:00minutes more helpful. Thanks!
I also came back to my hobby after 25 years... 5 years ago
Its funny how the simplest solution is always the best solution, Thank you for your time & knowledge... Edward, Sydney Australia
Not always. But it is always worthwhile to search for it...
Regarding the colors : most people never realize this, but the multi-color ribbon cable uses the same color code as resistors. It's a good thing to remember if you're numbering your wires and/or use them in a certain order.
Thank you for the tip. I did not know it.
@@AndreasSpiess no problem. It took me a long time to notice. It happened when I tried to keep track of which signals where on which wire on a project that had a long cable run. Kind of a "Eureka" moment.
@@AndreasSpiess One other thing : on cables with large numbers of wires (like old printer cables) they use two colors per wire, each combination is unique. That's how they could solder the connectors at both ends without using a continuity tester. I guess the gains in productivity justified the more expensive process of coloring the wires.
I have been surfing around for Arduino related content and every time I start watching a video or two, I end up finding one from your channel. From Lora Gateways to Dupont Wires, from Crimper tools to anything. I always find the info I am looking for at your channel.
For short, I want to thank you for your great work. I am big fan, and I wish you health and strength to make many more useful videos for the community.
Thank you so much the guy with swiss accent :)
Thank you very much for your nice words!
Thank you so much for sharing time saving tips. You earned that knowledge; thank you for passing it along.
The empty shell tip is great.
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Literally the most useful video I have watched in a while. And 3 yrs after it was made. Brilliant. Thank you Andreas
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Useful tips! Thanks for sharing, Guy With Swiss Accent!
+jix177 Thank you for your nice comment!
I use transparent tape to stick dupont headers in one row and even 2 rows together. To do so, i first attach the dupont wires on the pin row (preferred with black wire on GND) and than wrap tape around. This holds them amazingly good together and allow easy plug- and unpluging. I like the super glue idea for permanent cable preparation! Thanks for sharing Andreas!
Thanks for your feedback! At the bginning, I also used transparent tape, but the cheap empty shells are really an alternative...
Just about to wire up a project for a friend. This vid very helpful on how to produce a neat job. Thank you.
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Good tips. Thanks.
I also had the problem of always running low on black or red wires. I went online and was able to find packages of red and packages of black duponts. I didn't find many size options, but what I found pretty much solved my issues.
Gluing the empties together was an awesome idea.👍🏻
In the meantime, I also found black and red Dupont cables :-)
Appreciate the channel of the guy with sweet Swiss accent !!!
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this video and your insights. Greatly appreciated. I’m just beginning with Arduino and experimenting.
Glad you liked the content. Enjoy your new "hobby"!
Glad I came by. Two videos so far and I will definitely watch more.
Welcome to the channel!
That is a really useful video, I never realised you can buy empty shells. Many thanks for posting. Bob
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Genius: Thanks so much. I like the idea of buying empty shells!
These are truly useful. I still use them a lot
A few great tips there. Thank you!
My pleasure!
Great advice and tips, very helpful.
Thank you
Thanks Andreas. I got a few new tips here. I ordered some shells (a full kit for dupoint). That will make my STM32 STLink headers more tolerable :)
A problem I have with dupoints and breadboards.... well they tend to spread the jaws of the breadboard open just far enough to mean the normal steel pin breadboard jumpers get dodgy connections.
As a tip I would like to share. Projects which become more than temporary, you don't need to learn how to do full component based PCBs. You can quickly drop some male and female headers onto a PCB and plug modules into it. Makes things a lot easier when you project grows dozens of different modules and wires.
For example... you don't need to learn how to layout an Arduino IC ... just put female pin headers on teh PCB and plug the whole Nano into it. :)
Thanks for the additional tips!
I use IC sockets instead, sometimes a Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket.
Thank you for the great tips and the time you put into making this video. You have given me some good ideas.
Thanks!
You are one smart cookie! Great ideas - I show you videos often to my electronics friends! Thanks again Andreas!
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I wish that i had more electronic friends
Thank you for this video! I have been making my own dupont connectors and it is so hard and time consuming to get them perfect. I will use your tips #2+#3 and just buy a bunch of pre-made wires and replace the ends.
Good idea. For sure will save you some time…
Great tips and still relevant today.
Cheers
Glad to hear it!
Thanks a lot. A real wisdom nugget only experience can teach,, many thanks
My pleasure!
You could also use green for ground. It's easy to remember because the first letters are the same, and green is often use to represent Earth in AC power circuit wiring.
Good idea. Thanks!
Good advice, Andreas!
Glad you think so!
Brilliant video mate thanks it's a good reference source for the likes of myself new to the wire world
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This single video changed the way I did my prototypes forever. Use to have 4 problems when things didn't work (i) incorrect wiring (ii) software problems (iii) impossible expectations of a circuit (iv) Bad connections.
I have now basically got rid of (iv) because I now only use dupont cables organised nicely and I always have black for GND and red or orange for power.
I only have the female ones and make all the headers male. For me, works well.
The other thing is, I'm just terrible at crimping my own so I buy the ready crimped ones from China. The great thing is with care (and a good pair of tweezers) can take the cable out of housing and re-use and swap around.
One example of use is I may have a 2 pin connector and a 6 pin connector that comes from the MCU and goes into a 8 pin connector on the device as 2 are N/C. I found if you can get 2+ connections together they prevent a lot of wobble and drama.
I have an OV7670 camera module that has 20 pins, with single wires this was basically impossible to wire. With organised dupont it's so much easier and robust.
Also, the cost of the cable from China is basically no more expensive with the housing than without and given the time saved trying to crimp... you're well ahead.
Thanks for your feedback. It is always nice to read that somebody can use my stuff...
Nice to find another DuPont wire enthusiast! Good tips.
+NivagSwerdna Thanks!
Thank you for this useful TIps...
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Cool tips - I was looking for something like the empty shells but had no idea where to start looking!
:-)
This is exactly the lesson I needed, many thanks.
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Thank you for the good tips with empty shells! Ordered them immedeatly.
I am sure you will like it!
oh... wow this is wonderful trick.... the shells are great cheat sheet.... i burnt one of my arduino last month... i could avoid them in future... thanks for this simple video.
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How about creating a gofundme campaign asking dupont (or whoever makes them) to produce wires with 5 pairs of red and black wires to be used as needed? This can't be that hard! Great video Adnreas, thank you for the great content!
In the meantime I found red and black only wires and use them a lot :-)
as usual, "guy with a swiss accent", you simply peddle great info. simple, to the point, and, that hallmark of good info, seems pretty damned obvious AFTER you're told, lol. kudos, and a new subscriber
Welcome to the channel!
When I populate a shell I make sure that the latches are visible (uppermost) when the cable is installed, this means you can check the pins are latched and you can put test probes on the pin if necessary.
Mixing male & female pins means you can arrange them so that plugs & sockets cannot be connected to the wrong partner, or the wrong way round.
When making my own cables I use 24AWG flexible silicone insulated wire, this reduces the strain on the connectors.
Very useful. Thanks!
Thank you Andreas for this and all your other great and helpful videos!
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Do you have a patreon page?
No
Consider setting one up - you have a useful channel - there might be people who would not mind contributing a small amount per month!
Trick no. 4 was exactly what I was looking for but unfortunately I don't have a solder gun at home so rip. But these tips are great, Guy with a Swiss accent! Thankyou so much!
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Simple essential tips. Very useful & clear.
Thanks!
Good job. Great video. You are a good instructor.
Thanks!
Very very helpful. Thank you so much. - Das, Calcutta, India
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Great tips. Shall be adopted. Thank you.
:-)
Very interesting, I also started running low of black and red wires and started using blues as alternative ground or negative color and orange as alternative positive supply voltage. I'm currently still mostly breadboards so I'll have to add shells to my next aliexpress order. I already get the large breakaway pin headers so I can have any length I need and double up for double rows so I might add well get started with shells. With multiple projects using wires I also got a kit of assorted color solid core wires and use those in breadboards for exact length very clean and easy to see connections between components. It actually increases visual troubleshooting a noticeable amount and having long wires everywhere on breadboards I've found I make more mistakes at times so I'd add on that tip, real shorts flat against the breadboard surface wire connections with solid cores to replace long dupont wires with pin connectors.
Empty shells are a very good addition because they reduce the errors and also stick much better. I changed to silicon for my stranded wires. 30AWG for crimped and thicker ones for all other needs. They are a bit mure expensive but very flexible and heat-resistant. And in the meantime I also found red and black only Dupont wires. So I have enough of them...
And, as you describe, I recently bought a set of solid wires for breadboard usage.
Andreas. Thank you thos were actually very helpfull.
My pleasure!
Good info.
Glad you think so!
Love the 3rd tip!! A big thank-you and keep up the great channel!!
Recently I saw, that banggood sells a set. This is what I would have chosen instead of buying all in packages of 100...
www.banggood.com/310Pcs-2_54mm-Male-Female-Dupont-Wire-Jumper-With-Header-Connector-Housing-Kit-p-1063303.html
.Another good video with basic useful tips. Thank you.
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Oh... another tip. Dupoints are fine for test and development on BBs. For more permenant solutions, where you have the option, it's better to go to a more suitable connector, such as JST IDC or one of the more modern formats.
Thank you for your tips. Using modules indeed can reduce complexity a lot!
Thank you ! empty shells, I didn't know the name, i 3dprint something similar it was difficult, too tiny
And they are very cheap!
Very helpful tips, thank you so much for sharing! I learned a lot from you!
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Thank you for your helpful tricks!
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Hey... good stuff! Oddly all these tips cover problems I've been having and are just sorting out now. Being able to color code my rats nest would be the 1st big step along with wires of non-random length. I especially like how with a bit of care the dupont modules can be re-used.
Eternal useful info 👍😊
Glad you think so!
thanks for those tips!
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I like the empty shell trick.
I initially kept the cables in groups of 10, the colors match the resistor color code from 1 to 0(10) so it was easy to remember them by numbering.
But is rare to use them in number order on a strip, so the resistor code is not that useful in many cases.
So I prefer keeping strips of 20, 10, 5, 3, 2 and 1 and use the exact amount of wires I need.
Thank you for your feedback!
The empty shell trick is pure genius. I was going to buy a crimping tool before, but I may as well just do this instead.
I'll be using your tip on using blank connectors, thanks
+NOTuNOTme I love these. And they are dirt cheap.
very practical and great tips
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Brillant tips and methods, thanks
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Very Helpful ideas! Thanks!
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nice videoes. thanks for sharing. it is handy.
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A lot of useful tips! Thanks A lot !
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thanks! this has been very helpful!
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Thank you, didn't think of making a custom lead for the esp
This video was made a wile ago. Now, I have custom leads for many things...
Very useful thanks
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Useful, thank you
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Trick n°3 is really really great thanks!!
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nice tips
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awesome! loved the intro!
:-)
Great tips, thank you!!!
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Awesome stuff
Thank you!
Super useful!
Glad you think so!
This is so helpful 🙏🏻
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Handy tips. Thanks!
:-)
vert useful tricks! thanks
+Germain Staquet You are welcome!
If you need more colors of ten, you can mark with nail varnish to the cables. You have a lot of two color cables or more. Red - yellow or orange - green examples. I have only four colors of cables but mixed 5 colors of nail varnish : I have different 20 colors with this way.
Thank you for the tip!
Very helpful. Thanks!
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very great tips.
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NOICE, very handy. I like advice this this, ty muchly!!
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Wonderful!!
Many thanks!
Regarding wire color, I always use an orange wire for I2C clock connection. I can remember this because of the movie A Clockwork Orange :-)
Good idea! My I2C often are yellow and orange. Like that I also can remember.
Very helpful! Thank ou!
I really enjoy your videos. They're very informative and you have a very charming accent. I'm having trouble with loose connections using dupont wires. In this particular instance, I'm connecting female dupont connectors to a DHT11. Sadly, the male is too small :-( , or the female is too large :-( . Is there anything I can do to make the connection more secure...aside from soldering connections?
You can try with tweezers on the female part. But usually it is better to change them.
you are the best thank you very much...
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I use white alongside black for GND and save blue for signal wire.
Consistency is more important than color if you work for you alone.
Danke, sehr schön. Bei mir ist weiss immer der Clock/SCL und gelb die zugehörigen Daten/SDA auf dem I2C-Bus. Die leeren Hüllen bestelle ich mir bald mal.
norm1124
Das macht sicher Sinn. Dann musst Du nicht jedesmal nachschauen. Ich hab mir beim Uno die Belegung (A4/A5) unten draufgeklebt, da ich sie sonst immer wieder vergesse oder mir nicht mehr sicher bin...
Would like to see a good system for tagging/labeling individual patch wires. Right now, using freezer tape and a sharpie -- ugly.
GnuReligion label machine
Thank you, I have recently started playing with IOT and the most frustrating part was crimping wires,
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Great tips! Subscribed for more tips.
Quality ! Lower and lower after each buy and when I start prototyping something, I get a new pack of wires because the old one (male) are fine, but female connections wear out very, very fast. Any advice which one to buy now ?
I do not have advice for a source because all are similar. I throw the bad ones away. But usually they are ok. Maybe because I did not buy new ones for quite a while...
Thank you so so much!!
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Very useful.
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Well done! Thank you for the clear information. +Subscribed
Welcome aboard the channel!
Andreas, Thank-you for all your excellent tutorial videos, I have learned a great deal. I have had many years of bench experience and like you have used similar wire color coding schemes. The key point is to be consistent with the color code of all your projects.
I have always used brown for low and blue for VCC, (my rationale ) brown = earth or ground, Blue = sky or high (for the VCC voltage) .I'm not sure if this conflicts with European ac standard though?
In DC the red/black scheme is well known and many batteries use this scheme.
For AC, in Switzerland (and I think, in other European countries), blue is the non-live wire in our mains wiring. On the other hand, black is one color used for the life wire .... So, the only possibility is, as you write, be consistent for yourself.
thx alot
Welcome!
Another tip: Keep a supply of long pin headers to quickly convert a female dupont header to male, and arranging them in order at the same time.
+SirArghPirate Thanks for the idea. I am currrently not in my lab but I will try it out.
Hello. I would like to ask if the Dupont female connector would work to test different small resistors in a electronical project. I need to test different values without soldering.
The diameter of some resistors are similar to the diameter of male dupont connectors. But you also get ones with much smaller diameters.
I love this, but What about the most important part? Storage!
Maybe you wathc my other videos and you will find how I do this (mainly in the lab-update playlist)
I need to find a single female dupont connector to move forward with flashing a bootloader to my 3d printer. I suppose a 1x2, 1x3 or 2x3 would work too. Is there any electronic item found in one's house where it could be temporarily harvested? Quarantine makes it a nasty experience going out. Thanks!
I cannot help in this matter :-(
@@AndreasSpiess Thanks for the response. I found that there's a ribbon cable that connects the printer's screen and main board and it has female-female connectors. I was able to use that with the cables I had to make it work!
Thx good tips
Joep Aantjes Glad you like it!
great video(s). what kind of box is that you are using at 1:11 mark.