17-06-2016, 13:02
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AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,628
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Re: Electrical connectors on control system items
228 uses Deans connectors and I think they're fine. You have to solder the wire to them, sure, but other than that they are a robust connector that clips together securely and nicely. Soldering and shrink tubing the wires to each lead helps them hold securely. Never had an issue with them failing a pull test.
If you go all in with the tooling, Anderson connectors are very robust. I don't particularly care for the whole snapping multiple connectors into one big block thing. Spade connectors are okay I guess.
Almost any connector, latching or otherwise, can be made more secure with heat shrink tubing to hold it together. It's difficult to accidentally pull apart a spade connector if the tubing constrains it geometrically.
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