 The Great Search. Every single week Lady Aida uses her powers of engineering to help you find things you're looking for on digikey.com. Lady Aida, what is this week's Great Search? Okay, so this week, Sarah's just putting all my debugging tools away, this week's Great Search is a request by a customer, hold on, actually let me get the, let me get the right, oh my God, there's so many products. Okay, so this request by a customer, somebody who had a bunch of LED matrices and they said, hey, on the back of the matrix is this power connector and you have these connectors that you sell, but I want to get that connector itself and do you know the part number? And it's like, you know, if somebody even made a joke, they're like, they're always called Molex connectors, but these are point two inch spacing connectors and they've got this kind of funky latch. Let me see if I can, we also sell the individual cable. So I'll show you what the latch looks like. So the question is like, how do you find that matching cable, cable, here it is. This particular latching, you know, arrangement, how do you, how do you find the exact connector when it's just like, you know, you, whatever you buy the matrix, you always get the connector with it. And so I thought, well, let's try to figure out how, how to find a similar connector. I think this one, you know, I posted in the forum and I answered them. But let's, let's try to figure out how to get this connector. So having measured it, it's, I know it's point two inch spacing. So this is called, you know, like a rectangular connector, you know, connector. And you know, they're always called Molex connectors, but they're not actually, they're not necessarily made by Molex. Let me turn on the beta because that way you can see images. So tangular connectors, the closest one is going to be like this, although this is free hanging and panel mount, but I think I went to this one. Yeah. So this actually, sorry, I want to, I think I want the free hanging and panel mount. Let me see these images. Yeah, I think this one's closer. Okay, let's try this one. If it doesn't, we'll do the other one. So this connector, this connector is four pans, one row. So let's do one row, four pans and let's apply and let's see what we get. Okay, cool. Yeah, now we're getting, I don't know if this is this category or the other. Oh, this one's getting kind of close. Okay. So let's also look for active because we only want to find stuff that's around and we want free hanging and inline because we want it to be, it's like this loose cable, although we said, you know, no, I'm not. I'm not so sure. I think I actually do want to be in the other category. Yeah, I think I do. I'm sorry, it's not free hanging because it connects, it's not free hanging because it connects back to the PCB. So I actually do want rectangular connectors. Sorry, pretend I didn't do that. That's what it's like searching. Okay, try again. Number of rows, one, number of connectors, four, active and then apply. Okay, yeah, now we're getting closer. So actually, this is not too far away. So the next question is, I wanted that little like hook latch thing like this because this is a very unique element. And so this was called a latch holder or latch lock. I think that there's both kinds. So I want to add that on. Actually, let me do the pitch next. So I think this was 508.2 inch. You can of course measure with your calipers. And yeah, so we had a couple of good options here. So then again, I wanted to get something that was latch lock or latch holder. So let's look at latch lock and latch holder. Locking ramp is a little different locking ramp. There isn't a little piece that you press it down to release and it bends out rather than lifts up. And then let me see what else. There's receptacle versus not free hanging. And then let's look. Okay, so then this actually wasn't too bad. Now this is actually where I started looking at the photos. So this is not, I think this is like a friction lock. This one seems really similar. This one does not. This one does not. So actually just kind of went through and I looked at them all because there's only like 20. This was actually kind of a cool connector, but also the wrong kind. And in the end, this is actually really close. Now remember, this is just the connector, not the cable. So when I looked at this, I was like, okay, it's got like the little leggies and the latch leggies and the latch. And then this is like rectangular and slim. Look good. And you'll need the crimp connectors as well. So this isn't stock. So I would probably pick this up. And I did tell the person, we sell the cable, you're better off taking a cable and cutting and splicing it. But if you do want it, you can get also the matching connectors they have here. And then in the data sheet, they'll often, they do not tell you, you can take more measurements, but they'll sometimes tell you the contacts. Economy power seems likely under economy power, go to contacts, then you'll see the matching, like this part of the same series of connectors. So you'll see the crimps here for socket 10, 22 to 26 gauge and then 18 to 22 gauge. So that makes sense. I think like, you know, if I was going to be making these RG matrices and I want a economic power connector, I use the TE economy power. And then don't forget also, you know, they're expensive, but if you're making a lot of these cables, get the crimper. If you're not getting the official crimper, at least get a standard crimper. Do not use pliers to crimp. But other than that, this I think is the best bet. So I think this is the connector. I'm actually going to try to contact the factory that makes these RG matrices and ask them, because like maybe they do have department, oftentimes the connector that they're using is like a knockoff part number that has some basis in an American or European company, but it's like three generations down. You know, seeing this with JST SM connectors, like what you're getting often, it says JST SM, but they're not truly JST connectors. They're like clones of clones of clones of clones. So but I think this is the closest one to match. So I let them know and they're going to try it out. I'm also going to maybe order one of these and just make, you know, see if I can press fit on, see if it fits onto the connector and the little latch thing clicks into place. That's a great search.