[volt-nuts] Question for Fluke 732A owners

[Bill Gold]

Charles:

    6  battery packs all Male pins.

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Steinmetz" <csteinmetz at yandex.com>
To: "VoltNuts" <volt-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:46 PM
Subject: [volt-nuts] Question for Fluke 732A owners


> Fluke used two different connector schemes for the DC input on 732A
> battery packs.  The oldest units have a pair of banana jacks, and
> later units use a 3-pin connector made by Hypertronics.  My question
> concerns only the latter (732A battery packs with the Hypertronics
connectors).
>
> The Hypertronics contacts are interchangeable between the panel mount
> connector body and the plug body.  It is customary to build the panel
> mount connectors with female contacts, and the plugs with male
> contacts.  However, it appears that Fluke may have made at least some
> 732A battery packs with male contacts in the panel mount connectors.
>
> I'd be interested to know what is out there in the field.  If you
> have a 732A battery module with the Hypertronics 3-pin connector,
> could you please look at the connector and let me know if the
> contacts are male or female?
>
> Just to be painfully clear, I'm referring to the gold-plated metal
> contacts only, not to the black plastic parts of the connector.  The
> gold-plated metal contacts can be male (i.e., the metal part you can
> see is a solid pin) or female (i.e., the metal part you can see is a
> hole that will accept a pin).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Charles
>
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