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europa(at)pstewart.f2s.co
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:17 am Post subject: connectors

Anyone with nav/strobe units in wing tips - what have you used as  

electical connectors at wing root. The ones I got supplied are VERY  

heavy - looking for thoughts on anything more light weight.



Regards



Paul

G-GIDY

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frans(at)paardnatuurlijk.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:09 am Post subject: connectors

Paul Stewart wrote:

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 Anyone with nav/strobe units in wing tips - what have you used as

 electical connectors at wing root. The ones I got supplied are VERY

 heavy - looking for thoughts on anything more light weight.


	


You may want to look for "Molex" connectors. They are very lightweight

and easy to assemble. They are available in all sorts of different

amount of pins. Best known are the 4-pin ones that are used in the PC to

connect the power to the harddisks. For your purpose, you are going to

need 5 or 6 pin versions.



Otherwise take a look at eBay. I found a Bulgarian source for army stock

connectors. Very robust, with locking ring, high amp rating, and still

quite light weight and small. I use them because they have 20 pins, so

besides the nav/strobe it also connects the aileron trim, wing camera

mount, and on the ground this connector dual duties to make a connection

to the trailer (for ground power) to keep the batteries charged. It

saves me a separate connector, and make it impossible to forget to

disconnect before flight.  The only downside is that the pins are

positioned very close together and are solder only.



Frans

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acrojim7534(at)YAHOO.COM
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:53 am Post subject: connectors

Paul

  

 I used boat trailer connectors. They are flat 4 wire connectors. 

  

 Jim Brown



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 [quote]From: Paul Stewart <europa(at)pstewart.f2s.com>

Subject: connectors

To: "europa-list(at)matronics.com" <europa-list(at)matronics.com>

Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 9:16 AM



[quote]--> Europa-List message posted by: Paul Stewart <europa(at)pstewart.f2s.com>  Anyone with nav/strobe units in wing tips - what have you used as   electical connectors at wing root. The ones I got supplied are VERY   heavy - looking for thoughts on anything more light weight.  Regards  Paul G-GIDY      [quote][b]

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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: connectors

I have used RS connectors - you can get them in 2,3,4 etc way www.rswww.com 

ref 236-2984. Very light weight and inexpensive. I have my wing lights and 

stall warner through each side and although they will not stand heavy 

handling they are ideal for the connections - 2 1/2 years of derigging the 

aircraft so far.

Regards

Steve Pitt

G-SMDH

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frans(at)paardnatuurlijk.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: connectors

Steve Pitt wrote:

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 I have used RS connectors - you can get them in 2,3,4 etc way

 www.rswww.com ref 236-2984. Very light weight and inexpensive.


	


These are the molex connectors I wrote about. I would use the 6-pin

versions for this purpose. 3 pins for the strobe, one for the shield,

and the two others for the nav lights. You could of course combine the

shield with the minus of the position lights, saving one pin, but this

might create radio interference. It is better not to share anything with

the strobe system.



Frans

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europa(at)pstewart.f2s.co
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: connectors

Thanks for all the responses.



Getting dangerously close to running out of jobs(!!) after 10 1/2  

years!!!



Regards



Paul

G-GIDY

On 17 Oct 2008, at 17:34, Steve Pitt wrote:



[quote] 

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 I have used RS connectors - you can get them in 2,3,4 etc way www.rswww.com 

  ref 236-2984. Very light weight and inexpensive. I have my wing  

 lights and stall warner through each side and although they will not  

 stand heavy handling they are ideal for the connections - 2 1/2  

 years of derigging the aircraft so far.

 Regards

 Steve Pitt

 G-SMDH

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