Electrical connectors on control system items

[pilleya]

For me I value the ability to combine connectors into one main block and the ability to easily differentiate between positive and negative connectors. The power-poles also come standard with quite a few different colours and accessories such as retention pins.

For the 2016 season, we built a turret mounted shooting mechanism. We had 5 motors on the shooting mechanism, with 3 CAN Talon SRX’s mounted onto the rotating component with all sensors going into the SRX’s via CAN. We utilised Anderson Powerpoles(45amp) because they enabled us to join the plugs into one central block, including the CAN via green and yellow powerpoles. We were able to unbolt our entire shooting mechanism and simply unplug the main plug in order to quickly switch out our turret mechanism with our spare.

I don’t believe this block mounting style is possible with the XT connectors or the Deans Connectors.