Anderson Power Pole for motors

[Levansic]

Originally Posted by droswell

I just bought a bunch of Green, Yellow, and white ...

We are hoping to use the andersons for quick disconnects for our CAN bus as well - anyone see an issue with that?

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Originally Posted by droswell

We ordered the 15A connectors for the CAN bus wires and 18 gauge stranded hookup wire. I thought it was overkill, but if you're going to do it, you may as well overdo it

I've been thinking about this for the last few days. I really wish there was a 50% size PowerPole housing with ~5 amp contacts, for use on the CAN/PWM wires on the new Talons. The polarized but non-gendered PowerPoles are well-suited to the CAN daisy chaining, and for color coding the ends of PWM cables. Anderson doesn't make a smaller housing, and I've been unable to find something similar from any other manufacturer.

We've been using PowerPoles for the last two years, color coding pigtails attached to spikes and jaguars for quick swaps (red/black on supply green/gray on loads). They are awesome for this, but it just seems wrong to use the same connectors for high current power and low current signaling. Our friend Murphy has shown us time and again that there is no limit to what a new and under-mentored student can plug together incorrectly.

[adciv]

We've been using PowerPoles for the last two years, color coding pigtails attached to spikes and jaguars for quick swaps (red/black on supply green/gray on loads). They are awesome for this, but it just seems wrong to use the same connectors for high current power and low current signaling. Our friend Murphy has shown us time and again that there is no limit to what a new and under-mentored student can plug together incorrectly.

Oh, I've done that myself. I have this bad habit of connecting the output of a TALON to the output of the PDB or some other motor controller. I may try using your color coding change this year.

[Peter Johnson]

Originally Posted by Levansic

I've been thinking about this for the last few days. I really wish there was a 50% size PowerPole housing with ~5 amp contacts, for use on the CAN/PWM wires on the new Talons. The polarized but non-gendered PowerPoles are well-suited to the CAN daisy chaining, and for color coding the ends of PWM cables. Anderson doesn't make a smaller housing, and I've been unable to find something similar from any other manufacturer.

During beta test, we used the 2-pin 0.1" latching polarized connectors from Hansen Hobbies (http://www.hansenhobbies.com/product...nlpconnectors/) for CAN bus cabling. The pin size and spacing are the same as PWM. The housings are a tiny bit bigger, but the latching and polarization features won me over. Hanson also sells 3-pin versions for those who want to make their Talon SRX'es dual use. We're planning to use these connectors on our robot in 2015.