Sunday morning project, redoing my homemade electrical adapters

[signcrafter]

For a while now I've wanted to "standardize" my homemade electrical tools. Over the years I've made adapters and what not to test something electrical. From my homemade fuse saver(light bulb, thanks Stick!) to my trailer light tester, etc. There was a couple times where I needed a fuse holder or lighter plug or something else for more then one project. So instead of buying more and having redundancy I decided to make my own "plug and play" type of parts and adapters.

I ordered some weather pack connectors from ebay and made up a few adapters. So now I can grab the trailer light tester and either put a lighter plug or battery clamps on it so it can be hooked into the jump pack or a spare battery. Also made an adapter with an inline fuse holder that I can add to whatever I'm doing. Made an extension cable. Also made some banana jacks so I can plug them into my meter and then hook up to lighter plug to test voltage drop from inside car while cranking, or hook up to alligator clips and clamp to battery. I have a bunch of other things I want to make up also, alligator clips of different sizes, spade terminals, banana jacks, etc.

 

[Dick in Wisconsin]

That is pretty slick and a great idea! You might have a business opportunity there!

 

[signcrafter]

Thanks.

Here's an inline fuse holder I made up so whenever needed I can just plug this inline and have a fuse protection.

 

[Outlander]

Nice job - just the kind of Sunday morning project I like while enjoying some tunes and a coffee. I will bookmark this for future reference.

 

[signcrafter]

Forgot to add the picture of the fuse holder.

 

[nine4gmc]

Good thinking, I will be borrowing that!

 

[bareass172]

Glad to see the weather pack connectors worked out for you. I like those so much I'm actually about to order them in bulk from the guys on Ebay. Everything from the 1 through 6 pin style.

 

[Dick in Wisconsin]

Weatherpack are used extensively in NASCAR and ARCA stock cars.

 

[signcrafter]

Glad to see the weather pack connectors worked out for you. I like those so much I'm actually about to order them in bulk from the guys on Ebay. Everything from the 1 through 6 pin style.

Yes they worked perfect. Thank you for the link in the other thread.

I also bought some of the 6 pin ones for making relay tester adapters.

 

[bareass172]

I'd love to see info on that too!

 

[signcrafter]

I'd love to see info on that too!

Here's the thread on that, http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=241265&highlight=relay. That's as far as I've gotten. I ordered some more parts and pieces and waiting on them. Ordered a switch that is ON-OFF-(ON) so you can activate whatever the relay does either momentary or on/off. Also ordered a panel mount fuse holder to have some fused protection and also will be a place to use an adapter to make a loop to use an amp clamp to measure draw on whatever you're testing. Also looking for some strain relief things for where the wires come out of the tester.

 

[bareass172]

Lol, ok yeah, I commented in that thread too - I never even noticed both were you.

As for the strain relief, this is another area where Ebay may be able to help:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5PCS-M25-18...e-Gland-/360893278868?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

Not sure if that fits your need, but that might get you on the right road.

 

[signcrafter]

Lol, ok yeah, I commented in that thread too - I never even noticed both were you.

As for the strain relief, this is another area where Ebay may be able to help:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5PCS-M25-18...e-Gland-/360893278868?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

Not sure if that fits your need, but that might get you on the right road.

I've been looking at similar strain reliefs but smaller. Just need to find the right one. I'm going to update the other thread with a little progress.