Generic Default wrote:I had problems with the smoothie crimp connectors also. The locking ones are much better, and they need to slide completely over the pins instead of just touching on one side.
If you get a smoothieboard, you really need to get some better crimps and connectors. The ones from polulu are good.
Yeah, I used Pololu crimps / connectors to make up a wiring harness for my GLCD to go on the SmoothieBoard. Very jury-rigged - I hadn't bought any 2x5 connectors to mate with the LCD, so I took a 2x3 and 2 1x2 and taped them together. Voila, a 2x5 connector.
I did discover that if you pull the crappy white plastic connectors off the SmoothieBoard gently with a pair of pliers, you can pull the pins out of the latching polarized board-mount headers from Hansen Hobbies (which are what's on the Rambo), and slide the plastic housing down onto the pins. So, I was able to rectify the problem without resorting to desoldering.
You still have to do an adaptor for the thermistors, since those are just on a 0.1" header, so it's too tight for the latching connectors.