Can we discuss the purpose of this kit a little bit more?
In the window motor example above, you connect the car's power plug to these leads, which then plug easily into your DMM? Instead of holding pins and test leads....
Or, you can plug these leads directly into your window motor, and then connect the other end to a power source? Again, don't need to hold everything in place.
Is that the basic idea?
Here are some pictures I just took showing a window regulator and using my powerprobe to send power to it. The two pictures with my hand just to the left of the motor my hand is representing the metal in the door. I was testing a malibu window motor and there was a metal panel just to the left of the connector so no way to get a powerprobe in there. But you can use these leads to plug into the motor and act like an extension to get around that metal panel and be able to send power to the motor. There are a million other uses but this window motor example was one that I had in the last couple weeks and is a good example of how handy this kit can be.
I really like how it is all plug and play with a power probe. So between a fluke and a power probe and this kit you have so many options of getting into the wiring without poking holes in the wires. And it's a "solid" hook up. I used to have alligator clips and all sorts of other things hooked together to test and sometimes they would come apart. Or I would have to hold my meter leads or PP3 tip on a wire or terminal pin and try to keep it from slipping off while turning the key or pushing a switch to the window motor. Now I can hook everything up nice and just have my meter where I can read it and have both hands free to push buttons or turn the key to test and not worry about my leads having a good contact.
Window motor
Trying to use a PP3 to power it up to test it. Have to use alligator clip and pointy tip that can slip.
PP3 hooked up with test lead adapters.
Hand showing where a metal panel was on a malibu I tested the other week and couldn't get a PP3 in to power up the window.
Showing test leads act as extension allow you to get power to the window motor.
All the PP3 leads and the test lead kit use the same 4mm connectors so they all plug and play together to make a ton of different testing options.
Just one option of a PP3 hooked up to a backprobe.
I see about 9 or 10 different connectors, in both male & female, but I am unsure which manufacturer's connectors this kit fits?
I would like to find something like this that includes all GM connectors, or all Toyota or whatever.
It has the common round, square, and rectangle male and female ends. I have a kit from these guys
http://www.jumperkits.com/jumperkits which I have been using but isn't as nice as this set. If you have ever priced terminal kits made just for GM they are crazy expensive, in the several hundred dollar range. I haven't found a set made for toyota. Several companies make test lead kits like this but they are in the several hundred dollar range also.
