K2/100 DC power connector

[Steve L.-3]

Hey, I'm just about to power-up my fully built K2/100
mod and... snapped the RED DC power connector onto the
BLACK wire. This is the external DC power cable &
connector.

So, is there an easy way to extract the pin from the
housing to reverse these? I've never seen this
connector before and it doesn't look friendly to mods.

73, Steve N4SL


               
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[James T. "Jim" Rogers, W4ATK]

There is an extraction tool to do this, supplied with the Anderson Power
Pole kits. The tool is of thin steel, shaped (sort of half moon) to fit
around the wire crimped in the power pole connector. It slipped in
underneath the wire and connector releasing the retainer spring inside the
plastic housing. You could then slide the wire and connector from the
housing.
You could try a stiff thin piece of steel or brass, if you can insert it,
from the rear (wire side), in such a way to release the retainer, the
connector will slide from the housing with a gentle tug.

Jim W4ATK

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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 8:56 AM
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Subject: [Elecraft] K2/100 DC power connector


Hey, I'm just about to power-up my fully built K2/100
mod and... snapped the RED DC power connector onto the
BLACK wire. This is the external DC power cable &
connector.

So, is there an easy way to extract the pin from the
housing to reverse these? I've never seen this
connector before and it doesn't look friendly to mods.

73, Steve N4SL



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[Chuck Gehring]

I have done that before.  I used a small flat bladed srewdriver, carefully
lift theterminal end fromthe front of the connector were it snaps into the
detent and carefully pull with wire out.
73, KI4DGH

Chuck Gehring

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Subject: [Elecraft] K2/100 DC power connector


Hey, I'm just about to power-up my fully built K2/100
mod and... snapped the RED DC power connector onto the
BLACK wire. This is the external DC power cable &
connector.

So, is there an easy way to extract the pin from the
housing to reverse these? I've never seen this
connector before and it doesn't look friendly to mods.

73, Steve N4SL



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[Jim Sheldon]

You can also use a small flat-blade jeweler's screwdriver from the front.
Carefully insert it under the hooked end and gently lift it up over that
piece of flat spring steel that locks it in place.  Once you get the
contact's front lip lifted above the flat piece, you can gently tug it loose
by the wire from the rear.  I did this successfully this morning twice --
not enough coffee, and put the red wire in the black hole -- that's kinda
like putting the round peg in the square hole on a psych test.

Jim - W0EB
Wichita, KS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of James
> T. "Jim" Rogers, W4ATK
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:39 AM
> To: Elecraft Reflector
> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K2/100 DC power connector
>
>
> There is an extraction tool to do this, supplied with the
> Anderson Power Pole kits. The tool is of thin steel, shaped
> (sort of half moon) to fit around the wire crimped in the
> power pole connector. It slipped in underneath the wire and
> connector releasing the retainer spring inside the plastic
> housing. You could then slide the wire and connector from the
> housing. You could try a stiff thin piece of steel or brass,
> if you can insert it, from the rear (wire side), in such a
> way to release the retainer, the connector will slide from
> the housing with a gentle tug.
>
> Jim W4ATK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of Steve L.
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 8:56 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] K2/100 DC power connector
>
>
> Hey, I'm just about to power-up my fully built K2/100
> mod and... snapped the RED DC power connector onto the
> BLACK wire. This is the external DC power cable &
> connector.
>
> So, is there an easy way to extract the pin from the
> housing to reverse these? I've never seen this
> connector before and it doesn't look friendly to mods.
>
> 73, Steve N4SL
>
>
>
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[srife]

        I just use one of the small pocket screwdrivers to work up under the
very end of the connector and get it between the connector and the locking
tab in the shell. Then pull on the wire from the back. Takes a little
fiddling but it works for me.  

Stan Rife
W5EWA
Houston, TX
K2 S/N 4216
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of James T. "Jim"
Rogers, W4ATK
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:39 AM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K2/100 DC power connector

There is an extraction tool to do this, supplied with the Anderson Power
Pole kits. The tool is of thin steel, shaped (sort of half moon) to fit
around the wire crimped in the power pole connector. It slipped in
underneath the wire and connector releasing the retainer spring inside the
plastic housing. You could then slide the wire and connector from the
housing.
You could try a stiff thin piece of steel or brass, if you can insert it,
from the rear (wire side), in such a way to release the retainer, the
connector will slide from the housing with a gentle tug.

Jim W4ATK

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email]
[mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of Steve L.
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 8:56 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Elecraft] K2/100 DC power connector


Hey, I'm just about to power-up my fully built K2/100
mod and... snapped the RED DC power connector onto the
BLACK wire. This is the external DC power cable &
connector.

So, is there an easy way to extract the pin from the
housing to reverse these? I've never seen this
connector before and it doesn't look friendly to mods.

73, Steve N4SL



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