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Power Pole Connectors
"gareth" wrote in message
... "gareth" wrote in message ... "Ralph Mowery" wrote in message ... "gareth" wrote in message ... 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. Borrowed it this morning, only to find that it's not an Anderson crimper but a Draper one. Still, here goes ... |
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