I may have gone a little over kill on the wiring for my new spindle, compared to a lot of the videos I’ve seen, the stuff I spec’d up is pretty beefy.
But I figure I might as well play safe with good shielded cable from vfd to spindle. I also got some nice chunky power cable from plug to vfd that is rated comfortably to handle the watts.
Now if I could just find my crimping tool… I’d be in business.
Next time use shrink wrap.
@Paul_Frederick all the actual connections have shrink wrap. But I gave myself too much slack and just bound together that with tape because my shrink wrap was to small. So there are no exposed wires under the tape is just standing in for the outermost layer of wrap
I have the same connectors and don’t like them.
They are made for microphones. The ring vibrates loose on the spindle.
BTW, you shouldn’t have to crimp anything. They are soldered and then screwed together…with way too tiny screws.
@Marcus_Wolschon my plan was to crimp little circle connectors onto the vfd end so they can be screwed in place neatly. Particularly the earth terminal that will take multiple wires, I think it will be easier with crimped connectors than with bare wires
I had this type of plug with 3 connectors for the spindle.
I changed to a shielded cable with a 4th wire for earth. The 4th one sticks out through one of the screw-holes in the plug and used an O-shaped shoe to be screwed to the case of the spindle. (actually one of the 4 screws that hold the socket)
@Marcus_Wolschon interesting, I have three wires for spindle plus the earth connected to the 4th pin and the shield touching the metal casting of the plug. I’m assuming the metal connector is touching the case of the spindle so the shielding just needs to be touching the connector.
Mine is made of plastic given only the apearance of metal.
@Marcus_Wolschon ah, well I’m pretty sure mine is metal, but I will check resistance is what I expect for various connections before I start.
What the part number for these
@Glenn_West for which? The spindle/vfd or the cables? Or all of the above?
The connectors and cables
@Glenn_West the big silver connector came with the spindle. The cable between the vfd and spindle is igus CF31.15.04 from http://www.igus.co.uk/ the main power cable was fairly standard three core from home base rated for a little over 3kW since the next stuff down was only for about 1.5kW. And the crimps where from screw fix as was the ratcheting crimping tool I used. How that helps let me know if you need any other info
