An electrical connector for connecting multiple light emitting diodes
(LEDs) in parallel to a two-wire electrical supply bus, made up of upper
and lower halves that snap together and contact pins that pass through
holes in the upper half to make insulation displacement connections with
the conductors of the supply bus. Assemblies including large numbers of
LEDs are made by snapping connectors onto the bus, inserting contacts
into the connectors, and connecting LEDs to the contact pins, although
not necessarily in that order. The contact pins may be hollow to receive
the LED leads. Also, the positions of the holes in the upper halves of
the connectors, and therefore of the contact pins, may be staggered, so
that the spacing between the contacts can be made equal to the pitch
between the leads of the LEDs without spacing the conductors of the
supply bus further apart.