<font color='black' size='3' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Still, I'd say it was worth checking a bulkhead penetrator and cable for the hull side (some standard length of rubber jacketed cable, three feet, six feet, ten feet--whatever) with the wet-mateable termination for the thruster. It might be less expensive, and you probably won't have to change the cable penetrator end in the foreseeable future. Plus the electrical connections will have one pair less of unsoldered connections to go through. Might save fifty bucks a set, which would be substantial for us multi-thruster types.</font>
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From: Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br>
To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br>
Sent: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 8:31 am<br>
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] MK-101 Connectors<br>
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A male connector threaded directly into the housing shaft stub is
going to suffer the same potential of broken pins depending upon
handling. One clumsy move and you may have an unusable motor in
the field so you'd have to carry some spare male connectors just
in case. Additionally, unless you have a configuration in which
you can slide the motor into it's mounting and at the same time
mate the male (motor) and female (hull) connectors you're going to
end up with a pigtail or cable of some sort to make the electrical
connection from motor to hull. So I think you'd be better off
with a female connector on the motor and a cable with two male
connectors to make the electrical connection if a cable is
required to make the electrical connection.<br>
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If SubConn could produce a two pin high power connector you could
save penetrations by using a 4 pin female on the hull to feed two
motors. This would require a custom cable but the K600 used a
similar configuration for the original lights.<br>
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When we did our last minn-kota order the saltwater versions were
the same price as the fresh water versions so there was no
incentive to go with fresh even though they would work just as
well.<br>
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Jon<br>
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On 7/30/2014 6:15 AM, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br>
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<div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">David & Cliff</span></div>
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used the 4 pin high power connector,</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style=""><a target="_blank" href="http://macartney.com/sites/default/files/brochures/SubConn_High_Power_4pins_0.pdf" class="" style="">http://macartney.com/sites/default/files/brochures/SubConn_High_Power_4pins_0.pdf</a><br class="" style="">
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">then the 2 spare pins could have a thermister on
them measuring the motor temperature </div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">The HPBH4M "male" fitting on the motor would
mean you would have as Cliff suggested, the safety feature</div>
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live end would be female & wouldn't short on anything</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">I am wondering if there is any off the shelf
adapter we could use to screw this straight on to the motor
wiring outlet.</div>
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whatever to the pigtails (does it have pigtails) to fit them
directly to the motor electrics.</div>
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then be put back together?</div>
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motor controller?</div>
<div class="" style=""><a target="_blank" href="http://www.minnkotamotors.com/advantage/saltwater.aspx?sectionID=3" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.minnkotamotors.com/advantage/saltwater.aspx?sectionID=3</a><br>
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