Connector "how-to" question..

[EldarO]

Remember to stick a small cable tie around them so they won't come undone...

theres an idea...

although i run these connectors on my nitro stadium truck, and right next to an engine revving in excess of 18,000 RPM and producing a massive... 1 horsepower, they havent slipped at all, they are very very tight.

better to be safe then sorry though

Eldar.O.

[Ben Wilson]

The main reason I do it is to make sure that no water gets in there and corrodes the terminals.

[Toobs]

What exactly are you doing with this connector?
Why not try to find something suitable from Tyco and then order from Farnell or similar?
http://catalog.tycoelectronics.com/

Tyco probably have the exact same connector (if you can find it)

[Andrew162]

Toobs, when the thermo-fans were initially wired up, we couldn't find the other half of the stock connector. I found the other half, but there was bugger-all wire left on it to work with (as shown in the pics), so I wanted to replace the wire on the connector's pins without too much effort... not having the tools to do all this properly (the usual story), I managed to discard teh stock connector altogether and just go with some generic terminals which I've connected and tidied up a bit now... it's all good.

[Marc205]

I agree - I would have picked it for a Packard connector based on the packaging, but I couldnt find anyway quickly that had flat contacts (they were all round based on a cursory check). If this comes up again, I can always pull out the reference books. Good to hear you got it sorted, anyway.