[Elecraft] bad choice: Anderson PowePole connectors

[Jessie Oberreuter]

      'Course the ARRL had declared the Molex connector the standard a few 
years earlier, and we adopted it completely.  We had no interest in 
changing everything again, so we're still on Molex.



On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, W2AGN wrote:

> Craig Rairdin wrote:
>>> The Power Pole connectors on the K3 are a bad choice for this
>>> application.... why? :
>>
>> I've never understood the fascination with these connectors. They seem
>> rather flakey and cheap to me. You don't always get a solid connection. They
>> move around too much especially with a heavy-conductor wire hanging off
>> them. If you're going to depend on a friction fit, then give the thing some
>> friction.
>>
>> Craig
>> NZ0R
>>
>
> Tha main reason they have become "standard" is that the ARRL (ARES) declared
> them so, so all the good little sheep follow.
>
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