GlacierNine
Limp Gawd
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So I'm looking into the possibility of building/sleeving my own PSU cables.
I'm aware of companies like cablemod, but I think it'd be more satisfying to do completely from scratch, on my own.
Also, quite frankly, it seems like even buying parts from a "PC Mod Centric" retailer like say, moddiy.com means paying as much as £1.63 per connector, when mouser or RS electronics will sell me what I *think* are the correct connectors for 5 times less.
I've spent some time looking up molex part numbers, etc, and come up with the following shopping cart for connectors:
Http://www.mouser.co.uk/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=a84fcaa27f
questions:
1 - Have I found the right molex part numbers for this project? (Also it'd be good to know if anyone can find SATA power connectors/rear covers on mouser, since I've not been able to)
2 - I'm having trouble nailing down what wire I need to buy, and what kind of sleeving will work best. Can anyone here help with that? Ideally for as little money as possible.
3 - Is it possible to go full-bore and do this for the SATA data cables as well? I've found threads from a few years ago that were trying to do so but they were having trouble finding the parts/wire.
I'm aware that for companies like moddiy and pexxon, they've done this work for me, and that's part of why they're charging a premium for materials, whereas mouser/RS pretty much just point you at the catalogue and tell you to do your research, but money is money, and my time is mine to spend, so help would be appreciated.
Also if anyone knows of any other places to go for this stuff other than RS or Mouser that'd be cool too, since RS doesn't have several of the connectors I need, and other options are always cool to have.
I'm aware of companies like cablemod, but I think it'd be more satisfying to do completely from scratch, on my own.
Also, quite frankly, it seems like even buying parts from a "PC Mod Centric" retailer like say, moddiy.com means paying as much as £1.63 per connector, when mouser or RS electronics will sell me what I *think* are the correct connectors for 5 times less.
I've spent some time looking up molex part numbers, etc, and come up with the following shopping cart for connectors:
Http://www.mouser.co.uk/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=a84fcaa27f
questions:
1 - Have I found the right molex part numbers for this project? (Also it'd be good to know if anyone can find SATA power connectors/rear covers on mouser, since I've not been able to)
2 - I'm having trouble nailing down what wire I need to buy, and what kind of sleeving will work best. Can anyone here help with that? Ideally for as little money as possible.
3 - Is it possible to go full-bore and do this for the SATA data cables as well? I've found threads from a few years ago that were trying to do so but they were having trouble finding the parts/wire.
I'm aware that for companies like moddiy and pexxon, they've done this work for me, and that's part of why they're charging a premium for materials, whereas mouser/RS pretty much just point you at the catalogue and tell you to do your research, but money is money, and my time is mine to spend, so help would be appreciated.
Also if anyone knows of any other places to go for this stuff other than RS or Mouser that'd be cool too, since RS doesn't have several of the connectors I need, and other options are always cool to have.
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