Re: [time-nuts] How to love your Power Poles.

2017-06-22 Thread Van Horn, David
One thing I love about them is that you can create odd geometries. All my ham gear, and generally anything I own that's 12V has APPs in the OC Races standard. All lead acid sources are also same. I could see using a different geometry for lithium batteries and the stuff that goes with them, and

Re: [time-nuts] How to love your Power Poles.

2017-06-22 Thread Shane Morris
My AU$0.02 worth, evidently trading less than the Greenback right now... Coloured PP shells. Yup, I'd already seen this issue, I'm using PP's on traction driver packs (totally unrelated to this list, but run with me, they're DC), the input - "hot" - would be a *red* shell, and the output -

Re: [time-nuts] How to love your Power Poles.

2017-06-22 Thread Chris Albertson
No, there are more problems. Being non-gendered that apply connections mistakes like connecting to power sources together. Could you imagine how bad it would be if all power connectors were not-gendered? then you could connect two wall AC mains outlet together. Kind of a problem if there were

[time-nuts] How to love your Power Poles.

2017-06-22 Thread James Robbins
I’ve used Power Poles for some years. I have a proper crimper intended for PP. Color coding is very useful. I think the complaints about them are due to two things: (1) improper crimping of the contacts and (2) heavy gauge wire. The PP15/30/45 use the same plastic housing while changing