Electrical Quick release after motor controller?

[caseybarisax14]

Yes you came your team used them for all of your motor controllers

[tim-tim]

Amazon is a good source for a lot of things, especially Amazon Supply(formerly known as Small Parts).

Here is the 100 pack we ordered a few weeks back. They also have smaller packs, 50 and 10.

I have seen other teams use different colors for each motor and motor controller for quick visible recognition of where the connections go.

[mkaa00x]

Thanks once again! Okay so I've talked to my team's electronics guy and he'll be checking over this. Once again GOOD LUCK TO ALL TEAMS AND THANKS FOR THE HELP ^_^

[Foster]

Ham radio operator and a boater here: I've been using Power Poles for years and I love them. Spend the money and buy the crimp tool. The crimp puts even mechanical pressure on the wire, and creates wire/crimp areas that are pressure tight. Even mechanical pressure means the crimp will not come off in abnormal use. Pressure tight means no corrosion at that point (Corrosion is bad on a boat).

They come in colors and the right sizes for the job. They give you the ability to do both "correct wire colors" and allow for final decision at the device. Case in point, swerve drives have two motors close to each other. The wires coming to them are black/red indicating power. But the Power poles are Black and Red and Black and Yellow, and they mate to the same colors on the motors. (Drive and steer)

On the boat I have lots of pairs of items. Port side gets black/red starboard side gets black / orange.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

There are many crimpers out there, but we use the one from West Mountain Radio. Same guys that make the battery analyzer, CBAIII. The crimper is a military style ratchet crimper and does three sizes of terminals.

[otherguy]

Does anyone have a part number for the crimping die used for the powerpoles? I'm having a hard time finding them.

We don't currently use these connectors, but I was interested to see how much it would cost to get into the game.

There's a number of complete ratcheting crimpers online for ~$40, but we already have a number of ratcheting crimpers that the dies can be swapped out of. Doesn't make sense to buy another full tool when all I really need is the die...

[Foster]

It would help to know what tool you have now.

The one I have has a die set for other things:

http://www.powerwerx.com/crimping-to...ping-tool.html

but I'm going to doubt it will work with your tool.

OTOH, buy the new one. Figure 40 crimps a year, year 1 its a dollar a crimp. By year 5 you are under 25 cents a crimp. Loan it to the three teams in your area to use and soon you are at a penny per crimp.

[otherguy]

I believe our crimper is made by Xcelite, not sure on the exact model, but something like this.

I have purchased Paladin dies for it in the past (like this one)

The dies you linked look like they would fit our crimper, and I saw them when I was searching, but do any of the ones listed work for the powerpole connectors? My impression was that this die set would allow you to crimp other style connectors with the TRIcrimp powerpole tool, but does not include the die that comes with the powerpole tool.

Plus I was looking for a single die, at $55 I might as well just buy the crimper I linked previously (which appears to be the tool that this set of dies is meant for).

[Foster]

Some Google work got me to these:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JJJ6B6

My crimper is not nearby, maybe Al or someone else can look at the die picture and see if it matches their tool.