Thread: Electrical connectors on control system items
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Re: Electrical connectors on control system items
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Originally Posted by anthonyttu View Post
I think it would be nice to see a pair of two or a single four pin connectors on the CAN cables for the Tallon SRX's. That way if you pre-terminate spare controllers it could be changed out with mounting the new one and plugging it in.
We do exactly this with the 2-pin Latching Polarized (LP) 0.1" connectors from Hansen Hobbies (1). Put male on one pair and female on the other pair and daisy chaining is a cinch. The connectors have a plastic spring latch so won't come apart under vibration and are polarized so they can't be plugged in backwards. We put stub connections (short wire and connector) on other devices like the roboRio and CTRE products so we only need to deal once with insertion/removal into those connectors.

1: http://www.hansenhobbies.com/product...nlpconnectors/
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Last edited by Peter Johnson : 17-06-2016 at 12:52. Reason: Fix can to can't
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