[SixClub] DC Power cord for ICOM 551

[Tom Peters]

Mine looks like Mike's. It's got two vertical connectors over a horizontal 
one. There's no pins in the cable end of the lower horizontal one and no 
wire to it. I don't know what that third one is for. The backup (standby) 
power connector to float the memories is a separate connector. I can't see 
into the rear of the radio to know if there's copper in that third position 
on the radio side. Near as I can tell, the locking ring stops after one 
whole turn, but it's hard to see so I could wrong. But it stops positively.

At 01:58 PM 12/24/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:56:16AM -0500, W8rkg at aol.com wrote:
> > The ICOM 551 DC cable is a 4 pin connector MOLEX
>
>Interesting. Maybe there are two variants of the radio?
>As I wrote above, and as someone else confirmed, the DC
>DC connector for my 551 is round with three
>flat pins:
>
>                         = =    or   | |
>                          |           =
>
>I forget which.
>
>The locking ring is a fast-acting screw, too, ¼ or ½ turn.
>
>Now if there were only someone I could hear!
>
>--
>Mike Andrews, W5EGO
>mikea at mikea.ath.cx
>Tired old sysadmin
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