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Re: Electrical connectors on control system items

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Originally Posted by Peter Johnson View Post
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/
We did the same on our can bus this year. Worked wonderfully.
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