I would have bought some ring terminals for those wires, but if you rap them 
around in the direction you're turning the knobs to tighten them down, they 
should stay.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christy Schulte" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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