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Talked with Jennifer Stewart at MJ Stewart which is the
distributor for SubConn in the US. She confirmed what I wrote
below. Each pin is rated for 25 amps but the BHB series connector
material has a max rating of 50 amps. Divide the connector rating
by number of pins to find the total amps per pin. In short, the
two pin configuration is adequate for the MK 101's.<br>
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Also had a short conversation about custom cables. I need someone
to come up with a simple spec...connectors, cable length, wire
gauge and I can get a quote from them with that info. She said
quantity will be important to keep the price down...ten is a good
number, 15 is a better number (her words).<br>
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Jon<br>
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On 7/29/2014 1:58 PM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br>
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Alan, I think the confusion stems from the fact that SubConn
uses one datasheet for multiple pin configurations. The
per-pin-rating is 25 amps, but the overall connector rating is
50 amps regardless of the number of pins in the configuration.
So a three pin configuration should only carry 16.6 amps per
pin, and a four pin configuration should only carry 12.5 amps
per pin, to stay within the total connector rating of 50 amps.
Perhaps this is obvious to an electrical engineer but seems
rather confusing to me. It would be nice to see a separate data
sheet for each pin configuration.<br>
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So perhaps the "how many amps per pin" question was a bit
specific for an engineer who was probably considering the
physical and electrical capabilities of a single pin and not
taking into account the actual application. Anyway, I will be
talking to SubConn this afternoon to get it straightened out
once and for all.<br>
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Jon<br>
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