Mastodawn

Hardware question - does anyone know what is this connector?

I thought at first it's some sort of JST ZH or PH connector, but it isn't? As far as I can tell. The pin pitch is somewhere around 2.0mm. It's 8mm wide.

I want to do a reversible fan replacement on a Commodore CDTV, and don't want to cut the original wiring.

Edit: it's a Molex MicroBlade, thanks for the boosts and input everyone!

#hardware #electronics #diy #retrocomputing

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Andrew 2d ago

@chainq Looks like Molex Microblade. Unfortunately they don’t make them anymore

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Charlie Balogh 2d ago

@cinebox Yes, thank you for the information or rather, confirmation, based on an earlier guess, I just came to this conclusion as well.

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Andrew 2d ago

@chainq You could desolder the header and put whatever 2mm connector you want in there, then replace the connector on the existing fan to match. It would be reversible, just not 100% original

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Charlie Balogh

@cinebox I would rather not modify the PCB, until it's possible, but yes, that is an alternative.

@ktims pointed out that there's a Chinese clone/second source available as CJT A2004. Maybe I'll try to get one of those, before attacking the PCB with a soldering iron.