Thanks. I can do that, though without twisting them around at least some,
there's going to be wire sticking out at least a little which, I'm assuming
is a safety hazard waiting to happen..
As far as the colors, fortunately the wires are labeled for me, and someone
gave me the colors on the power supply, so that's one hurdle dealt with.
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jim Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: question about connecting a power supply
if the screws have holes in them, just put the end of the wire through the
hole that matches the color of the wire and tighten the knobs tightly so
that the wires are held in the holes. Make sure that someone shows you the
correct colors for matching because you do not want to connect ground to hot
and damage the radio.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christy Schulte" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:20 PM
Subject: question about connecting a power supply
>I posted this privately to someone, but thought perhaps it might work
>better
> to post it here, even if I do feel like a complete newbie doing so..
>
> Ok, being as I've never hooked up my own power supply before--when I was
> active before it was just on an HT.. I thought I knew what I was doing,
> but
> it's not working the way I'd expected. the kenwood 707a came in yesterday,
> and the power supply today. So now the challenge of connecting the two..
>
> I got a radio shack power supply, 13.8vdc as recommended by the manual, 15
> amps. The terminals on the front of it look kind of like knobs on a radio
> or
> something, they have big plastic covers that you use to screw and unscrew
> them. When unscrewed, I managed to reach down and feel the actual screw,
> and
> each screw has a hole in it that goes all the way from the top of the
> screw
> to the bottom. the knobs have holes in them too, going front the back.
>
> As far as the radio DC cable, each has what feel like several very small
> bare wires at the end, but the wires have been twisted together and
> sawtered
> at the end, so it's more like a single wire at the end of each, positive
> and
> negative. they are labeled, so I know which is which, and I know which
> terminal is which on the power supply. Of course, everything is unplugged
> as
> I'm trying to connect them.
>
> So, the first thing I tried was sticking the wires from the radio into the
> holes on the knobs. this didn't work, because rescrewing the knobs still
> didn't hold the wires in place. Next I tried wrapping the wires around the
> correct terminal, around the screw itself then screwing on the knobs. this
> sort of worked, but as it started to clamp down, the knob part started
> pushing the wires away rather than holding them in place. Is there a
> certain
> trick to this? Should I be feeding the wire into the middle of the screw
> where there's a hole first, then wrapping it? I just don't want to
> experiment too much because I don't want to damage the cable. On the other
> hand, I sure don't want to do it wrong and create a worse problem. I'm
> looking into getting some eyes over here, but finding someone with
> knowledge
> of these things is far from easy, especially when I can't get on the air
> anywhere except echolink, and I'm not sure which repeaters are close to me
> that also have echolink access.
> thanks!
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