[Elecraft] Anderson Power Poles?

[Deni]

This is Ham radio today?

LEARN,  how to terminate cables...Coax,  DC or  whatever, and just do it.

Do it right.

There are many step by step tutorials and pics, even videos on how to do 
it right.

Lots of problems will just go away!

Hard to believe any guys using Elecraft equipment have problems with 
such basic connectors.

Do  a Google search and you'll find all the info to do it right.

Maybe we should we start another thread about Knobs now?

73, Deni
F5VJC



> That's why there is a CRIMP tool, although solder will hold well enough i suppose, maybe, but I wouldn't trust it . I crimp them, and THEN flow solder into them.  You (anyone) could sit there and wiggle them enough to break the wires.  I don't wiggle or dodge and burn my DC connectors all that often.  But you can do that to connector with a strain relief just as well.   Just don't trip over them -- anything can be ripped out and broken. I have this vision of hams sitting in a long winded QSO or calling CW DX over and over and over ...  running out of productive things to do, fiddling with their PP's to see if they can make them break.  Of course you can break them.
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> I have many 12VDC circuits on power poles.  I have never had a failure, never had wires break, and never plugged 3000VDC into the back of my K3 (but I don't have 3Kv on power poles either).   Ok -- so the power lead to my K3 is #8 copper and short (by design) and pulls out when I slide the radio too far forward on the desk.  But I don't do that to get the radio closer and "hear better" or whatever :-)
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> Grant/NQ5T
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