[time-nuts] Anderson PowerPole (was Charles Wenzel GPSDO)

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Thu Jun 22 15:12:37 UTC 2017


Hi Chris,

On 06/22/2017 04:37 PM, Chris Caudle wrote:
> On Thu, June 22, 2017 7:40 am, Mike Seguin wrote:
>> For anything critical, I use these connector from the professional sound
>> industry.
>> http://www.neutrik.com/en/speakon/
>
> Neutrik make a variant specifically created for power connections instead
> of speaker connections.  I think they are essentially the same style
> design but with different color coding to make them stand out from speaker
> connections.  I don't know if the contact plating may be different, or the
> spacing different so it can handle higher voltages. Ground mates first
> before the two power pins (three pin instead of the four pin Speakon).  UL
> listed for up to 250V AC.
>
> http://www.neutrik.com/en/powercon-20a/
>

Speakon and Powercon cannot mate. This is intentional, so you don't feed 
your speaker 240 VAC which would burn the speaker up in most cases.
Same basic ideas thought, but re-applied.

Cheers,
Magnus



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