TD,
It's not for nothing that the US military & aerospace industry uses
Deutsch connectors. Note that there are other manufacturers of MIL-SPEC
connectors besides Deutsch; all of them are excellent.
If you can't afford a failure, use MIL-SPEC connectors. They usually
have gold-plated connector pins-- not for looks but to insure good
electrical contact. Ordinary contacts are not good unless there is a
substantial current flowing through them. "Dry contact" switch contacts
and connector pins maintain good, low-resistance connections even with
very low current flow.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of todd
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:17 AM
To: DrMayf; Bryan Savage; List Land Speed
Subject: Re: Weather-Pack and Deutsch connectors
I fully understand the cost thing Mayf, and am with you on that in
certain
areas of things I do(we all have areas we are more anal in then others
in
many areas of our lives). In areas concerning my business and racing
that I
only want to do once(or in this case may need to plug and unplug on a
fairly
regular basis), or can't see it failing until it fails... I want the
best we
can get for both my customers and myself. I know if runnning on the salt
I
would not take the smallest chance of loosing a run due the chance of
electrical contact contamination(I personally am not willing to take
that
chance on the road or on the concrete either). Not to mention that the
Duetsch line offers anything from single contact connectors(jiffy
splices) to
12 contact connectors(in mutliple color and key combinations to not
confuse
hanress connections at that) including 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 12 place
connectors. The Delphi Packard line(both weather pack and metri-pack
systems)
are only available up to 6 contact connectors if I'm not mistaken.
Packard
connectors are also more pieces due to the cable seals which have to be
ordered specifically for wire size and are disposable rather then
reusable. I
just see the Deutsch stuff as worth twice as much as anything I've
found,
with less labor and better function. Also(for me) the fact that the late
model Harley's(50% of my work) already use the deutsch stuff.. it's a
vibration insurance that is hard to come by(which is why I change as
much of
the older bikes that are not a full restoration over to them too).
TD
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