I picked this up during Hamcation last year. I thought was interesting. It allows me to quickly hook up a set of power wires to Anderson Power Poles. I recently found it useful when my FTX1 arrived and I wanted to hook it up to my power supply. Ten seconds later and I was good to go. I found over the past couple of months I used these quite a few times.
My quandary was I bought it from a booth at the hamfest from a vendor whose name I couldn’t remember, how much it cost, and even what it was called. So I thought I would try to recreate it. An Amazon seach found these.
Wire Connectors Putting it together I used 1″ 12 ga. solid copper wire and standard Anderson Power Poles. These connectors will handle wire from 24 to 12 ga. Putting everything together they look like this.
From here I dabbled some Clear Gorilla Glue to hold everything together and I used some clear heat shrink from a prior project. The fnished product looks like this.
I made enough to put with my various radios. I started using Anderson Power Poles about 20 years ago when they first showed up in the EmComm community. I know folks have a love-hate relationship with them. I love them because they can prevent cross wiring an expensive radio to a power supply. Today’s pricing they are about $1.25 a set, cheap insurance.
Now if I have a friend that does not use Anderson Power Poles, I can hook him up (literally). I think I spent about 30 minutes making these. A little something to make life easier when everything around you may falling apart. 73 de Scott
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