"gareth" wrote in message
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"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in message
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Decided to Power Pole all the 12V gear here (Why I ever decided to put
a detachable 12V lead via an octal plug/socket combination on my HB
QRP 80M rig is beyond me!) and discovered Torberry down in
Waterlooville, Hants.
Ordered enough yesterday, and prompt delivery today!
Well done that firm! (No connection with them (apart from the Power
Poles
For a good number of years a friend and I used some 2 pin Molex type
plugs for the 12 volt power so they would all interchange. They were not
rated for the current of the later devices and started to be difficult
to find.
We have now switched over to the power poles like some of the rest of the
country. There is a recommended way to pair them up as sort of a
'standard' so people in different parts of the country can swap out the
gear if wanted.
While there are several varities of them, they make some that use the
same plastic housing and the contacts are different only in the size of
wire they are made for. I think it is the 15, 30,45 amp ones that are
that way.
I hope you spent afew more dollars and bought the crimping tool for them.
Makes instlling them well worth the $ 20 or for the tool.
No, couldn't find the accompanying advert for the crimpers so will
probably solder the connections
unless I can find a man who has the crimpers already. That is, unless I
fashion
a crimping block in my metal working workshop; how big is the hole for
the 30 Amp pins when the crimper is closed?


No worries for the person who introduced me to Power Poles in practice, a
model
engineer for whom I was diagnosing a lock-up in the motor controller of his
5" gauge Class 45
diesel will lend me his crimper.