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Re: WARNING: check polarity

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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.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

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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.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

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

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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.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

Ours were correct as well.

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

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.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

All of the ones received by both 2068 and 4472 were correctly assembled.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

Our's were OK
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

957's were assembled correctly.

Thank you to FIRST for the quick notification.
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Our's were correct as well.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

330's were assembled correctly.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

85’s are correct.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

862's were correct.
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

It appears that this must have been a rare instance and that we got the first off the line on Monday morning or last off the line Friday Afternoon connector.

Luckily no harm was done. (That we know of yet...) Just lots of clicking from the 40 amp fuses. :-)
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Re: WARNING: check polarity

One of the three we received was assembled backwards.

Thank you for bringing it to everyone's attention.

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