[Shop-talk] automotive connector breakout wires

[Kent Sullivan]

David, agreed—that’s been my personal experience.

 

Group—I recently have been working on a custom automotive project that has brought me into contact with all of these terminal types:

*	Packard 56 open barrel (Delco-Packard --> Delphi --> Aptiv)
*	Packard 59 (specifically Twin Lock)
*	Metri-Pack
*	Weather-Pack
*	Powerpole (Anderson)
*	Deutsch

 

I’m happy to try to help anyone on the list who is trying to identify terminals / shells or etc. I have had some success tracking down crimping tools as well.

 

FWIW, I have rapidly become a BIG fan of the Deutsch setup. Easier to work with (easier to crimp, easier to revise) and physically smaller than Weather-Pack.

 

--Kent

 

From: Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of David Scheidt
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2024 11:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] automotive connector breakout wires

 

 

 

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 11:21 AM Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate at gmail.com <mailto:fishplate at gmail.com> > wrote:

If you're trying to connect with the connector unplugged, the "easiest" thing to do might be to get some male and female pins and make jumper wires with them .   Finding the correct pins is the hard part of the easy solution.

 

 

If you can figure out which ones you need, getting the right pins is easy, and even real OEM ones are usually pretty cheap.  The problem is there are lots of choices, and they all require their own crimping dies, so it's hard to keep them on hand just in case. For testing, you can probably get away with the wrong tool, or soldering them on.  But if you're repairing a connector, you want the right crimper; poorly crimped pins and socket ends are a source of maddening intermittent failures and risk deciding a part has failed when it's just the wire end that's bad.  

 

One very real advantage of using the right pins is you can get a good sense if you have a pin fit problem, which causes failures, often intermittent.  hard to do that with a probe or stick pin.  

 

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David Scheidt
dmscheidt at gmail.com <mailto:dmscheidt at gmail.com> 

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