[Elecraft] Kpa100, powerpoles and crimpers

[Don Brown]

Hi

Well you need to buy some more so you can build up a few spare 3-4 foot PP to PP power cables, several PP to Elecraft round barrel connectors, a PP to large battery clips, PP to banana plugs for a power supply or add PP pigtails to all of your power supplies. My bench supply has two cables connected to it with a round barrel connector and a 12 Ga wire with a PowerPole on the end. I can power a K1, KX1, K2 or a K2/100 with this setup. You may also want a 3 or 4 way Y PP cable. If you use solar panels then a 50-100 foot 12 ga cable with PP on each end so you can set up your panel out in the clear. I also found a little clamp on goose neck lamp at Office Depot for $10 that had a 12 volt wall wart transformer. I cut the wire and installed PPs on each end. Now I can use the transformer or plug it into my RigRunner for a portable desk lamp when running on battery/solar power. You may also want a PP to cigarette lighter plug. If you use a laptop with a 12 volt cigarette lighter plug adapter then you may want to build up a PP to cigarette socket so you can run your laptop portable. There are probably dozens of other uses but this should use the better part of a 50 piece package so you can better justify that crimper You bought. 

Don Brown
KD5NDB


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: WQ8Q<mailto:wq8q at earthlink.net> 
  To: Don Brown<mailto:DolfinDon at msn.com> 
  Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Kpa100, powerpoles and crimpers


  Hi, Don . . . I got caught up in the moment and bought the $50 crimpers AND
  a Rigrunner at Dayton . . . and all the way home wondered why I spent the
  money . . . then when I got home I converted all of my cables to the
  powerpoles and now wouldn't part with that crimper now for anything!  What a
  great tool - and now everything's running off the powerpole and the wiring
  in the shack looks extra "neat" for a change!  The only sad part is that
  I've "crimped" every cable I could find onto powerpoles and now have none
  left to play with!

  73 de Rick, WQ8Q