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

[Cheetah8799]

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.

 

[LED]

Micheals got some Here and if you want to go from scratch then check These from SVC...

 

[Cheetah8799]

The linked items aren't exactly what I am looking for, but they lead to what I do need.

link to what I really want

$1.50 each is really expensive though. Anyone know where to find these for less?

 

[Cheetah8799]

I believe I found them at jameco.com

prod link

13 cents each for orders of 100 or more. Now I just need to get the metal pins for it.

 

[Zepper]

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.

 

[Cheetah8799]

I also downloaded their PDF catalog. Lots of good stuff in there. They even have the 2 pin styles listed.