WARNING: check polarity

[Al Skierkiewicz]

First KOP engineers are being notified now.

[Toa Circuit]

Are we going to get replacements of these, or is there a way to swap out and modify the plugs?

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Toa Circuit

Are we going to get replacements of these, or is there a way to swap out and modify the plugs?

The cables can be reversed pretty easily.
The connector attached to the wire slides over a flat spring in the housing to latch securely. You just need to depress the spring from the front of the housing and lightly pull out the cable. Reinsert just by pushing it back into the housing.
Avoid scratching the top of the connector, so the contact surface isn't degraded any.

You can see the flat springs in the cutaway below and the little lip at the tip of the connector that fits over the end of the flat spring to hold it securely in place.

[Toa Circuit]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The cables can be reversed pretty easily.
The connector attached to the wire slides over a flat spring in the housing to latch securely. You just need to depress the spring from the front of the housing and lightly pull out the cable. Reinsert just by pushing it back into the housing.
Avoid scratching the top of the connector, so the contact surface isn't degraded any.

You can see the flat springs in the cutaway below and the little lip at the tip of the connector that fits over the end of the flat spring to hold it securely in place.

Alright, sweet. Actually, we didnt need to though- the plugs we got were of the proper polarity.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Just to check, have a lot of teams found these or is this a rare event at this point? None of ours were incorrect.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Just to check, have a lot of teams found these or is this a rare event at this point? None of ours were incorrect.

Ours were correct.

[FrankJ]

Ours were correct as well.

A good lesson learned is always check these kinds a things, even when they come from a reputable vendor.

[MrForbes]

It's probably a rare event, but still worthy of significant attention (I saw two emails and a CD post and was reminded again last night by a teacher who saw an email about it).

Ours were assembled correctly.

[Phyrxes]

All of the ones received by both 2068 and 4472 were correctly assembled.

[JohnBoucher]

Our's were OK

[flameout]

957's were assembled correctly.

Thank you to FIRST for the quick notification.

[cgmv123]

Our's were correct as well.