Steve:

What I wish to do is make a power pole harness that can be connected to one 
power supply, and from which I can run several things, connecting them up to 
power poles on the other end of the harness.

What I had once was I believe a very large 50-amp power pole connector, from 
which three or four separate wires branched off with power pole connections 
that could be used for separate items, such as an HF rig, my old LDG 
auto-tuner, and maybe even an HT.

I am trying to get an understanding as to how to configure the pins in the 
large power pole housing that has many slots for separate connections--do 
you put all of the positive leads on one side of the housing, and all of the 
negatives on the other side?  That would seem most logical to me.

Does this make any more sense, or have I confused things further?

On another note:  congrats to Paul on the contest wins.  I'm hoping that, by 
the contests this Spring, I can get the Ts480 going out in the motor home 
and work stations while doing some week-end camping.

Will just have to take that one step at a time, and hope Spring weather 
eventually gets here to Central Michigan.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: anderson power poles re-visited


> Tom,
>
> Not sure I am following you.   I've never used the 50 amp power poles, so
> I'm at a disadvantage  I don't know if there is a difference in the
> houseing, or just in the pin's current rateing.  On the 30 amp power 
> poles,
> they are dovetailed on all 4 sides, so they can be ganged  together in
> various configurations.  I think the more you gang together, the more
> difficult the project and the more chance of  an accidental short.
>
>
> Besides WMR, Saratoga and MFJ make distribution panels with power poles.
> Perhaps a more detailed explanation of  what you are trying to do will let
> others on the list give ideas.
>
> BTW:  I spoke to Paul N4PN last weekend.  He told me the results are in 
> for
> last years WPX SSB and CW contests.  He won both for the USA in the high
> power single tribander and wire antenna catagories. You may remember that 
> in
> the CW contest he ran my KW3A call.  I know you got in the log a couple of
> times that weekend, so many thanks for the points.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>  .
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:03 PM
> Subject: Re: anderson power poles re-visited
>
>
>>    Steve:
>>
>> Thanks for this good information.
>>
>> Now, I have a question about the power poles that I'm not sure I'll
>> verbalize correctly, so don't laugh too loud if this comes out weird.
>>
>> If, say, I were to make an Anderson Power Pole harness that I could
>> connect
>> several things too simultaneously, using one of the large 50-amp
>> connectors
>> that has nultiple slots in it, do all of the negatives go on one side, 
>> and
>> all of the positives go on the other, or would you alternate them 
>> somehow?
>>
>> This may seem very elementary, but the last set of power poles I had were
>> made for me by someone else, and he didn't seem to have the time or
>> inclination to explain to me in detail what he was doing.  He just wanted
>> to
>> get the job done, as it were.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>
>