Hi Well you need to buy some more so you can build up a few spare 3-4 foot PP to PP power cables, several PP to Elecraft round barrel connectors, a PP to large battery clips, PP to banana plugs for a power supply or add PP pigtails to all of your power supplies. My bench supply has two cables connected to it with a round barrel connector and a 12 Ga wire with a PowerPole on the end. I can power a K1, KX1, K2 or a K2/100 with this setup. You may also want a 3 or 4 way Y PP cable. If you use solar panels then a 50-100 foot 12 ga cable with PP on each end so you can set up your panel out in the clear. I also found a little clamp on goose neck lamp at Office Depot for $10 that had a 12 volt wall wart transformer. I cut the wire and installed PPs on each end. Now I can use the transformer or plug it into my RigRunner for a portable desk lamp when running on battery/solar power. You may also want a PP to cigarette lighter plug. If you use a laptop with a 12 volt cigarette lighter plug adapter then you may want to build up a PP to cigarette socket so you can run your laptop portable. There are probably dozens of other uses but this should use the better part of a 50 piece package so you can better justify that crimper You bought.
Don Brown KD5NDB ----- Original Message ----- From: WQ8Q<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Don Brown<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Kpa100, powerpoles and crimpers Hi, Don . . . I got caught up in the moment and bought the $50 crimpers AND a Rigrunner at Dayton . . . and all the way home wondered why I spent the money . . . then when I got home I converted all of my cables to the powerpoles and now wouldn't part with that crimper now for anything! What a great tool - and now everything's running off the powerpole and the wiring in the shack looks extra "neat" for a change! The only sad part is that I've "crimped" every cable I could find onto powerpoles and now have none left to play with! 73 de Rick, WQ8Q _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
