[Milsurplus] connector quandry

Mike Durff mike at oldaudio.net
Thu Sep 26 16:13:48 EDT 2013


Now that I am in possession of an RBA-BB-BC set with two power supplies, I find that  the connectors are on the RBA & one of the RBC are non standard.  The RBC-1 uses a very common 11 pin round connector on both the radio, power supply and connecting cable. The RBA-1 has been changed to a cinch-jones type on both PS & radio. The fact that I have three radios and only two supplies complicates matters further. I've heard that you can run two sets from one supply, but methinks it would be smarter to run 3 radios from two supplies in parallel, so as to not overtax either supply. At this point, I'm assuming all three radios use the same supply voltages. ( I'll look in the manuals before I proceed with this plan ). 

Not wanting to bastardize these units any further.  I think building a junction box and installing the mating connectors, to match the already made up cables would be the way to go. The power supply inputs to this junction / distribution box shouldn't be a problem. Now that I think about it, I could hardwire the 2 X PS to the jct/distro box and use the existing cables to connect the radios. That leaves me with one 
RBB-1 with factory connector  and one RBC-5 with factory connector. What to do? Opinions, please...

TNX, Durff

Many thanks to the list for helping me locate these fine radio sets.


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