I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item 141119598452
http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy
but am gob smacked by the price of £7.07 each!
Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?

Mike

Muddymike wrote:
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item
141119598452 http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy
but am gob smacked by the price of £7.07 each!
Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?

Mike
http://www.rapidonline.com/Cables-Co...oof-Connectors

On Thursday, November 28, 2013 5:09:31 PM UTC, Muddymike wrote:
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item 141119598452

http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy

but am gob smacked by the price of �7.07 each!

Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?



Mike

Might it be cheaper (and better) to just buy a longer bit of flex and not have the connector? (if you can)

Philip

Muddymike wrote:
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item
141119598452 http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy
but am gob smacked by the price of £7.07 each!
Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?

Mike
http://www.rapidonline.com/Cables-Co...oof-Connectors


Thanks Phil but they work out even more expensive after adding the P&P
charges.

Mike

In article , Muddymike
writes
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item 141119598452
http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy
but am gob smacked by the price of £7.07 each!
Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?

To be fair, it doesn't seem excessive for a safety critical, mains
voltage, must work item. It is immersion proof after all

Mind you I have just paid 14quid for a discrete component PIR detector
just so I could cut the lens off and use it on something else.
--
fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .

fred wrote:
In article , Muddymike
writes
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item
141119598452
http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy
but am gob smacked by the price of £7.07 each!
Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?

To be fair, it doesn't seem excessive for a safety critical, mains
voltage, must work item. It is immersion proof after all

Mind you I have just paid 14quid for a discrete component PIR detector
just so I could cut the lens off and use it on something else.
+1

Mike - don't be so tight it is only the same as 2 pints!

Bob Minchin wrote:

Mike - don't be so tight it is only the same as 2 pints!

In the south-east maybe.

Bill

On Thursday, November 28, 2013 5:09:31 PM UTC, Muddymike wrote:
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item
141119598452

http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy

but am gob smacked by the price of �7.07 each!

Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?



Mike

Might it be cheaper (and better) to just buy a longer bit of flex and not
have the connector? (if you can)

Philip

Sadly not an option as the leads are moulded in but too short.

Mike

In article , Muddymike
writes
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item
141119598452
http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy
but am gob smacked by the price of £7.07 each!
Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?

To be fair, it doesn't seem excessive for a safety critical, mains voltage,
must work item. It is immersion proof after all


What bugs me is that it'll cost me seven quid odd each to extend the too
short lead on two six quid outdoor rope lights. I'm not tight honest
although I do live in Yorkshire!

Mike

On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:14:12 -0000, Muddymike wrote:

What bugs me is that it'll cost me seven quid odd each to extend the too
short lead on two six quid outdoor rope lights. I'm not tight honest
although I do live in Yorkshire!

Ah so none critical and a tiddly load. Crimps and self amalgamting
tape fed via a plugin RCD and 1 A fuse in plugtop. Though if the
circuit they are connected to is also RCD protected the plugin jobie
might not serve much real purpose. Or an IP65 box and a terminal
strip.

--
Cheers
Dave.

In article , Muddymike
writes
In article , Muddymike
writes
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item
141119598452
http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy
but am gob smacked by the price of £7.07 each!
Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?

To be fair, it doesn't seem excessive for a safety critical, mains voltage,
must work item. It is immersion proof after all


What bugs me is that it'll cost me seven quid odd each to extend the too
short lead on two six quid outdoor rope lights. I'm not tight honest
although I do live in Yorkshire!

Ah, you didn't mention the application. As you had pointed to a pond
connector I assumed you wanted something truly immersion proof and
demountable.

In your place I would make a neat soldered joint and cover it with
adhesive lined heatshrink, job done. If you want an extra pair of braces
then add some self amalgamating tape over the top.

Other alternatives are crimping the adh lined h/s but not so neat or
crimps then potting in a tiny box, again not so neat and more expensive.
--
fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:10:27 +0000, fred wrote:

In your place I would make a neat soldered joint and cover it with
adhesive lined heatshrink, job done.

Not great fan of adhesive lined heat shrink. I find heat shrink too
rigid and the "adhesive" never really bonds to the cable, even minor
stress/flexing breaks the bond and forms a capilary way in for
moisture.

Self amalgamating tape still doesn't bond to the cable but it seals
very well, remains flexable and doesn't form a capilary.

--
Cheers
Dave.

In article , Muddymike
writes
In article , Muddymike
writes
I need a couple of weather proof cable connector like Ebay item
141119598452
http://tinyurl.com/ks8nocy
but am gob smacked by the price of £7.07 each!
Any suggestions on where to but them for a sensible price?

To be fair, it doesn't seem excessive for a safety critical, mains
voltage,
must work item. It is immersion proof after all


What bugs me is that it'll cost me seven quid odd each to extend the too
short lead on two six quid outdoor rope lights. I'm not tight honest
although I do live in Yorkshire!

Ah, you didn't mention the application. As you had pointed to a pond
connector I assumed you wanted something truly immersion proof and
demountable.

In your place I would make a neat soldered joint and cover it with adhesive
lined heatshrink, job done. If you want an extra pair of braces then add
some self amalgamating tape over the top.

Other alternatives are crimping the adh lined h/s but not so neat or crimps
then potting in a tiny box, again not so neat and more expensive.

Had it been for use 100% on my own property I would have immediately gone
down the solder/heat shrink route. But it'll be spending the first weekend
of its life in a public place so I though a proper connector would be
appropriate.

As for pointing to a pond connector, it is the most cost effective/neat
solution I could find. My subject line did say "Weather proof"

Mike

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:10:27 +0000, fred wrote:

In your place I would make a neat soldered joint and cover it with
adhesive lined heatshrink, job done.

Not great fan of adhesive lined heat shrink. I find heat shrink too
rigid and the "adhesive" never really bonds to the cable, even minor
stress/flexing breaks the bond and forms a capilary way in for
moisture.

Self amalgamating tape still doesn't bond to the cable but it seals
very well, remains flexable and doesn't form a capilary.

Self-amalg does need a covering of paint or pvc if it is out in the sun.
But that's beside the point. I have a lot of below-ground-level cable
voids here. In all cases I have made sure (as far as possible) that they
don't fill by putting them over soakaways. The cable joints are in
junction boxes fixed to the walls of the chamber just below the covers.
The cables enter via holes in the bottom face of the boxes. Joints are
either soldered or crimped. I haven't had any trouble, except once when
a freak downpour filled a chamber.

Incidentally, since this is a DIY group I'll mention that I was unable
to buy the chambers and covers exactly to my spec, so I cast the
chambers in concrete and made the covers from 1" x 1" steel tube frames
(galved) with alloy 5-bar plate screwed to it. It's all been fine. The
first ones were done 30 years ago and there have been no problems.

Bill

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:44:59 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

Self-amalg does need a covering of paint or pvc if it is out in the sun.

Hum, can't say I've ever noticed any degradation of SA tape by
sunlight.

That includes the stuff that had been around N-types on a roof for
10+ years. When I cut that off to remove the installation it was just
as I put it on, soft and flexable solid "rubber" and the connectors
inside in prefect condition.

--
Cheers
Dave.

Bill Wright wrote:

I have a lot of below-ground-level cable
voids here. In all cases I have made sure (as far as possible) that they
don't fill by putting them over soakaways. The cable joints are in
junction boxes fixed to the walls of the chamber just below the covers.
The cables enter via holes in the bottom face of the boxes. Joints are
either soldered or crimped. I haven't had any trouble, except once when
a freak downpour filled a chamber.

Incidentally, since this is a DIY group I'll mention that I was unable
to buy the chambers and covers exactly to my spec, so I cast the
chambers in concrete and made the covers from 1" x 1" steel tube frames
(galved) with alloy 5-bar plate screwed to it. It's all been fine. The
first ones were done 30 years ago and there have been no problems.

I don't imagine you as running an outdoor model train network.
Can we be curious about what your installation is for?

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Plant amazing Acers.

In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice scribeth thus
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:44:59 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

Self-amalg does need a covering of paint or pvc if it is out in the sun.

Hum, can't say I've ever noticed any degradation of SA tape by
sunlight.

I have seen it happen on some radio comms sites after a number of
years..


That includes the stuff that had been around N-types on a roof for
10+ years. When I cut that off to remove the installation it was just
as I put it on, soft and flexable solid "rubber" and the connectors
inside in prefect condition.


Denso tape is the stuff they use for real comms grade joints, **** to a
blanked and then some!!...

--
Tony Sayer