[Elecraft] K3: supplied power cable specs?

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Unless I'm mistaken, aren't the PPs on the the cable when you receive it
anyway (I don't remember seeing anything about assembling them in the
manual)?

I confirm soldering works great, just be careful to get a good flow of
molten solder, but not enough to run out of the contact end and onto the
actual wiping contact.

For what its worth, I have converted all my 12v power to use PPs, I even
took the Molex connector off the Yaesu FT-857 and replaced with PP (why
didn't I do what a lot of people have done and put PPs on the fly lead?
Because the Molex connector had an intermittent connection, not to mention
it being about twice the size). To this end, I bought a West Mountain Pro
crimper from Quicksilver Radio Products (http://www.qsradio.com/, I found
them to be very good) because I had so many to do.


On 24/10/07 13:34, "Tom Hammond" <n0ss at embarqmail.com> sent:

> Fellas:
> 
> SOLDERING, esp. when the wire size closely approximates the inner
> diameter of the
> APP contact pin, works JUST GREAT!  Don't sweat the high-dollar
> crimper. NOT REQ.
> Just do a creditable job of soldering.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Tom   N0SS
> 
> At 06:45 10/24/2007, Darwin, Keith wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Oh No!  Instead of toroids, I have to build power pole connectors!
>> 
>> Is there a Power Pole Guy out there? :-)
>> 
>> 73,
>> Henry - K4TMC
>> ------------------------
>> 
>> Boy, I'm with you Henry.  APP - they're great if you're seriously into
>> gear and have lots of rigs.  Then you can spend the $50 for the tool and
>> it's no big deal.
>> 
>> I have one rig.  I'm NOT going to spend $50 for a crimp tool to do 2
>> connections.  Yet, crimping is the right way to do these.  I soldered
>> the ones for my K2/100 and will end up doing the same for those with the
>> K3, all the time wishing they were crimped.
>> 
>> Actually, maybe I should buy the top-dollar crimper, a case of APP
>> connectors and a spool of 12 ga wire, and become the Power Pole Guy.  Or
>> not.
>> 
>> - Keith N1AS -
>> - K2 5411.ssb.100 -
>> - K3 wave 3 -
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