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What are these connectors called?
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<blockquote data-quote="HardofWhoring" data-source="post: 8842055" data-attributes="member: 674149"><p>You can't assume on color codings. Depends on who it is, red could be 12v or acc. Yellow could be power or acc. Orange could be power, acc, illumination, or nav. Purple could be speaker wire, or nav. ETC.... The only one you can safely assume is, black is ground.</p><p></p><p>If you cut and solder, you're going to cut and solder every time. If you add new connectors and pins, you can just depin if it the connector matches up, and swap back and forth without doing any real work. If you solder all of it, put it in, and it's junk or want to go back, then you take it out, cut and resolder everything you just did. If you added pins, you can have it all ready before you start taking anything out, and you can put it all back to any previous one in a minute or two compared to soldering it all. </p><p></p><p>Is your time to solder everything more valuable then $5 for a new connector, (and all that extra time where you do the same one twice would have been free with a new connector). Sure you can solder, but I would personally just rather have a few connector harnesses laying around. Especially if they are the same manufacturer/ chinese design, they should plug right up. Then you're going to be soldering every time vs already having it done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardofWhoring, post: 8842055, member: 674149"] You can't assume on color codings. Depends on who it is, red could be 12v or acc. Yellow could be power or acc. Orange could be power, acc, illumination, or nav. Purple could be speaker wire, or nav. ETC.... The only one you can safely assume is, black is ground. If you cut and solder, you're going to cut and solder every time. If you add new connectors and pins, you can just depin if it the connector matches up, and swap back and forth without doing any real work. If you solder all of it, put it in, and it's junk or want to go back, then you take it out, cut and resolder everything you just did. If you added pins, you can have it all ready before you start taking anything out, and you can put it all back to any previous one in a minute or two compared to soldering it all. Is your time to solder everything more valuable then $5 for a new connector, (and all that extra time where you do the same one twice would have been free with a new connector). Sure you can solder, but I would personally just rather have a few connector harnesses laying around. Especially if they are the same manufacturer/ chinese design, they should plug right up. Then you're going to be soldering every time vs already having it done. [/QUOTE]
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