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The Powerpole "standard" has also been completely disregarded. The housing color is suppose to represent the voltage, but now it's been co-opted to the point wh
by adestefan 13y ago
The Powerpole "standard" has also been completely disregarded. The housing color is suppose to represent the voltage, but now it's been co-opted to the point where you see red and black as + and - 13.8v.
- VLM 13y agoThat's the nice thing about standards, there are so many conflicting ones to choose from. And you are correct before hams started using powerpoles in wholesale lots, the mfgr had a semi-elaborate scheme for full scale railroad wiring where the color had a meaning WRT voltage which the hams disregarded and decided to use red/black. That's in itself is a lesson optimistic power connector designers need to learn about the past, if you "borrow" something currently used for marine power, or solar panel wiring, or forklift battery chargers, and try to do something totally different, expect some conflicts even if the new app dwarfs the old one by a couple orders of magnitude. Yes, on a railroad locomotive engine I wouldn't randomly plug red/black ham radio powerpoles into the first railroad engine red/black that you see, its not going to be what you expected. Almost everywhere else, it will work.