Thread: Check your Anderson battery connectors
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Unread 15-03-2016, 07:12
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Re: Check your Anderson battery connectors
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Originally Posted by jmullins16 View Post
We also had a power outage after the jumping the rock wall. Upon inspection, the pink Anderson connector we had installed on the robot did not have the terminal fully captivated by the spring clip and slipped back. We have no idea if it was due to original assembly or being stressed.
The way the anderson connectors work, it was almost certainly an incorrectly installed crimp in the connector housing. I have been using the SB50 connectors for years now in situations much more stressful than FRC and I have never seen or heard of a crimp coming out of the connector housing once properly installed. The one failure mode I have seen that was not entirely user error is the wires breaking where they go into the connector from fatigue. To combat this is pretty simple. Bolt the robot side of the connector to something in the robot that doesn't move like the frame. (there are already holes for 6-32 screws in the connector housing just for this)