Hahaha, I used 10s of thousands JST PH connectors since donkeys years and do exactly this whenever I need to seperate the crimps from the housing. Brilliant idea to make a less than 1 minute video about it. This will be very helpful to a lot of people.
Now, how do you crimp a cable in a way that doesn’t look like the crimping tool gnawed it closed? Bonus points if the “proper tool” doesn’t cost as much as an SUV.
You already had the right tool in hand.. just used it the wrong way.. slip the knife under the tabs, lift it up and pull on wire... I never really needed the crimps as they are dirt cheap.. you usually run out of plastic connector.
There are some 3d-printable jigs to help with this as well, but the one I tried for jst ph was not very effective. jst xh a little better, but i suspect your method is the fastest if you dont care about the shell 👍
LCSC is good for that stuff. For the price of 1-2 small assorted boxes from Amazon of one type of JST connector, I got 100-500 qty of serval difference types and sizes from 3-12 pin with matching headers and full spools of crimps.
But what to do with the second end of the wire? And these are already worn out connectors, oxidized. This reduces reliability. It's better not to break the technology.
@@Engineer_Stepanov they aren't worn out, they are new. When you are doing small production runs yourself, you need all the speed you can get, and wasting a bunch of dirt-cheap housings is totally worth it.
Yeah but now you have destroyed a perfectly good connector. I hold the connector in a small vise and lift the tabs with a #SK5 X-Acto blade to remove or change around the wires with no waste. I keep the reusable connectors in a small box.
Yes but if you are buying them in packs of 200 throwing those away is no issue, especially if you buy wider ones that you do not use often, needing 3 pin ones more than 4 pin.
