8 pin male connectors for the cable for Clear-com CC-300 headsets

[K Maxwell]

I am looking for replacement 8 pin male connectors for the cable for Clear-com CC-300 headsets. At a school that has 9 CC-300 headsets 5 of them have bad cables. I took the cable off of one of the ones that worked and tested using that cable on all of the headsets that weren’t working and they worked with the good cable. I didn’t see anything wrong with the wiring or the soldering of the connection at the 4 pin XLR end.  They have ordered some cheap knockoff replacement cables but I would like to try and fix at least a few of the original cables. But I can’t find the 8 pin connector, I probably just don’t know where to look and what the part number would be.

 

The original ones are molded connectors but I am hoping to find a replacement version that I could wire up myself. Does anyone here know what and where I can find these connectors?

[Palmer Jankens]

Hello,

I attached the CC-300 / CC-400 Headset Pinout Guide from Clear-Com. Hopefully it opens for you without issue. If for some reason you can't open the PDF, the 8-pin connector is wired as follows:

1- Mic NEG (Green)

2- Mic POS (Yellow)

3- Shield

4- Shield (jumped from 3 or reverse)

5- Speaker Left NEG (Orange)

6- Speaker Right NEG (Red)

7- Speaker Left POS (Brown)

8- Speaker Right POS (Blue)

On the XLR side, the 4-pin connector has the following pinout:

1- Shield AND Mic NEG (Shield and Green)

2- Mic POS (Yellow)

3- Speaker Left NEG AND Speaker Right NEG (Orange and Red)

4- Speaker Left POS AND Speaker Right POS (Brown and Blue)

The attached PDF has a drawing that makes this easier to visualize. Hope this helps!

Palmer

[thechriswalters]

I order mine from eBay for $29.99:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/334684487024

You can order them from places like Full Compass, but they charge $85.00 each:

https://www.fullcompass.com/prod/557383-clear-com-hlcn-x4-4-pin-female-xlr-cable-for-cc-300-x4

Hope this helps!

Chris

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Date: 2/23/24 9:33 AM (GMT-05:00)

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I am looking for replacement 8 pin male connectors for the cable for Clear-com CC-300 headsets. At a school that has 9 CC-300 headsets 5 of them have bad cables. I took the cable off of one of the ones that worked and tested using that cable on all of the headsets that weren’t working and they worked with the good cable. I didn’t see anything wrong with the wiring or the soldering of the connection at the 4 pin XLR end.  They have ordered some cheap knockoff replacement cables but I would like to try and fix at least a few of the original cables. But I can’t find the 8 pin connector, I probably just don’t know where to look and what the part number would be.

 

The original ones are molded connectors but I am hoping to find a replacement version that I could wire up myself. Does anyone here know what and where I can find these connectors?

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[Palmer Jankens]

I wrote all of this out and posted it before I remembered that the original question was to identify the connector model <facepalm>

Those connectors may be so small and finicky the premade moulded option is possibly the best solution. I will dig through my Clear-Com archives and see if I can find something but there wasn't any readily available info when I searched around the web over the past few minutes. If I find out any new info I will post it here and if not it's safe to assume the premade cables are the way to go.

Palmer

[Jonathan Woytek]

"Dual row" or "double row" connector housing is what I'd call that type of connector, but I've not seen any locking type with that kind of mechanism. You could probably pick an eight-pin solder- or crimp-style housing and make a working cable out of the broken ones, provided that the rest of the cable is good. They wouldn't have what looks like a locking or alignment mechanism like the molded connectors do, though, so you'd have to employ some markings or some kind of key to avoid inverted connections. 

Another really hacky idea might be to slice open one of the molded bodies to see if the pin module can be extracted, replaced or repaired, and then hot glued back into place inside the molded boot. That feels like more than $30/cable worth of time and effort, though, which would make getting a few more of the eBay variety a more affordable option to have some spares in-house.

jonathan

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I am looking for replacement 8 pin male connectors for the cable for Clear-com CC-300 headsets. [...]

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[Palmer Jankens]

After looking more into it I would say the premade cables are definitely the way to go. The closest I could come to a part number was "8 Pin ClearCom ® Proprietary Square plug" which - if accurate - means you're probably not going to find them readily available for private resale. All references to the connector in Clear-Com manuals simply say "8-pin connector at headset end; 4-pin Female XLR" so they're intentionally vague with a connector model. I'm always down for a good soldering adventure but by the end of the first one of these you might think $30 is insanely cheap for the amount of tweezer work you'd be doing.

Piggybacking off of Jonathan's comments the closest thing I could find was after searching for "PCB plug 8-pin double row." There are really cheap options for these but you will have to know the exact pitch of the Clear-Com connector pins and it definitely wouldn't have the locking hardware to secure it to the headset nor any strain relief. If links are allowed in this group, here's one to a DigiKey product that's only 70¢ ea which, if you find the correct pitch, would likely mate to the headset but with all of the disadvantages listed above. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/sullins-connector-solutions/PPPC042LFBN-RC/810244?utm_adgroup=General&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PMax%20Shopping_Product_Zombie%20SKUs&utm_term=&utm_content=General&utm_id=go_cmp-17815035045_adg-_ad-__dev-c_ext-_prd-810244_sig-Cj0KCQiAoeGuBhCBARIsAGfKY7xcilARye2yZj2MO4dA4pGDrnd1BsjX3B8v7VOTikWJFSIXvknGpz4aAtqTEALw_wcB&gad_source=1

Good luck!

Palmer

[K Maxwell]

Thank you for all of the replies. I figured that it was along shot. I have no interest in dissecting the ordinal connectors in an attempt to reuse them. Trying to open up a molded connector is a real pain and could be a big mess. I don't think I could ever get it back to looking decent if I did that. I might be tempted to dissect one just to see what is going wrong in there. When the cheap replacement cables come in I will see if they are any good.