Anderson Power Pole for motors

[cgmv123]

Originally Posted by Zaque

Unrelated to the clips, Powerwerx sells these housings, which we used throughout the season. Those housings are bonded and as such have built in polarity protection. We may have had one of these seperate, but it was not on the robot and I believe it went through a serious trauma (hit with a hammer).

The ultrasonically welded housings are great. I'd never buy the individual housings, because there aren't many scenarios where you need to keep the + and the - wire separate. Plus you can use the hole where the roll-pin normally goes to run a zip-tie through for locking.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

The ultrasonically welded housings are great. I'd never buy the individual housings, because there aren't many scenarios where you need to keep the + and the - wire separate. Plus you can use the hole where the roll-pin normally goes to run a zip-tie through for locking.

We use the individual housings and we never use the roll pins. Zip ties going across the backs of the housings have worked fine for us. Some of the reasons I like individual ones, they are normally cheaper, you can have multiple colors, and if you need to quickly invert a motor direction you can do it without pulling the contacts out of the housings.

I've been using them since I started in FRC in 2003 and wouldn't want to use any other connector.

I bought some green and yellow ones to use with the CAN wires this year, we'll see how that goes.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

The ultrasonically welded housings are great. I'd never buy the individual housings, because there aren't many scenarios where you need to keep the + and the - wire separate. Plus you can use the hole where the roll-pin normally goes to run a zip-tie through for locking.

Ouch! for what they cost, I'd have a kid superglue them if them being bonded is that important to you.