[Elecraft] Power Shut Down Resolved!

[Lew Phelps K6LMP]

When making up APP connectors, you have to be VERY sure that the little lip on the connecting pin (the part that's soldered onto the wire) extends completely into the plastic housing so that it locks itself over the metal part inside the plastic housing.  Viewed from the side it looks something like this:

=============\
------------- \

where the double line (string of = signs) represents the connector that's soldered onto the wire, the diagonal slashes represent the lip at the end of that connector, and the single line of dashes represents the metal part of the plastic housing.  If you can pull the wire out, it ain't locked in place. 

Once I realized this, I have never had a problem with APPs.


Lew K6LMP

On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Phil Kane wrote:

> On 3/24/2011 6:56 AM, Hunsdon Cary III wrote:
> 
>> I know there are many that are fans of the Anderson Powerpole
>> connectors but I am not one of them!
> 
>   I am a fan of the APP when assembled and crimped properly. The
>   only times that I have had problems with them was when early
>   in my learning career with them I was in too much of a hurry
>   and didn't do it properly, and recently when some suppliers
>   were delivering knock-offs made in China that weren't up to
>   spec.
> 
>   I guess that one gets what one pays for......
> 
> --  73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
>    Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
> 
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