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FOUND THEM, read first post for details: 3-pin fan connectors, bare leads only, where to buy?

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Cheetah8799

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I found them at jameco.com
plastic 3-pin housing
gold-plated metal pins
the cheap metal pins 🙂

The jameco phone guy gave me the product number for the uber expensive gold plated pins... It turns out they also sell cheap tin plated pins, which I think will work fine. 🙂 They are about 6 cents a piece. Total price for enough to convert 100 2-wire fans: $25 + shipping. 🙂


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As the title says, I am looking to purchase about 2 dozen 3-pin fan connectors. I don't want the Molex -> 3pin adapters, they are too expensive. I am looking for a cheap source for just the bare plastic connectors with (or without) wire leads coming off so I can solder them onto my own fans and such.

If anyone knows a source for these, let me know. I've been digging around the internet, but can't find anything....


For those of you wondering why I am doing this, it is because I have a large number of fans with ONLY the 4-pin molex connectors. I'd like to be able to have 3-pin connectors on them, but want to do it cheap since they are cheap fans. And yes, I am a "do-it-yourself" type of guy.

EDIT: Here's an example of what I want, but $1.50 each is way too much.
 
Jameco also has the pins - search on contact - at the bottom of the 5th page and top of the 6th (gold plated) - ~5 cent Q100+ for the tin plated (Jameco part no. 234923). How convenient - you beat their small order charge.
. You can see all their stuff on that pattern (except the contact you need as they forgot to include the "KK" in the searchable description) by searching on- KK .
.bh.
 
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