female gigar plug adaptor on lightforce lamp

[thurso jack 3]

the solder on my female connector came undone lastnight on my lighfore lamp pack, what is the new part i need to order from deben called so i dont order the wrong thing?

 

i had to cut it up and do a bit of diy in the field to get it working to run a couple of rabbits for the ferrets, bloody hot fingers holding bare wire to metal for 10 mins

[Guest JohnGalway]

Do yourself a favour - I know this from experience - forget Debens, over priced expensive crap (apart from the stuff you can only get from them...). Go to your local motor/car shop and buy the male and female ciggie lighter bits. Cut off the deben ones and solder the new ones on. Much better job!

[maty j 6]

feck the cigar ends off and wire the lamp up to some proper connectors like these. no solder on these just screws.

 

 

or if you really want to stick to the cigar type get down maplins and buy one. i picked up female cigar connectoe for under a quid. that was before i got the proper jobs on the go

[highlander 0]

I got a new plug for my lamp the other day its a screw on one no solder and looks like it wont brake if I lone my lamp to my mate again as he shut it in the door of his truck. Go to Auto Parts or Charlie Angus TJ they will have one.

 

Regards highlander.

Edited August 7, 2007 by highlander

[tod 3]

all these cigar sockets and fuses etc are just more things that can go faulty when out lamping.cut the cigar of the lamps cable and attatch a couple of spades.

[thurso jack 3]

cheers for the replies lads, trouble is im handless as feck when it comes to these type of things, ive got sexy fingers, everything i touch i f*ck!

 

highlander, you can come and fix it for me!

 

i have a spare so not totally stuck!

Edited August 7, 2007 by thurso jack

[Guest JohnGalway]

Good looking connectors there Maty j, I tried to get those when I was doing mine but couldn't source them locally.

 

One thing I would say is to make sure you have a proper fuse somewhere along the line, no harm in being safe. Had a backpack go on fire on me once, on my back, not much fun

[tod 3]

cant see the point in having connectors on your lamp unless you want to plug it into your cars socket.heres my set up.i tape round the spades to prevent them from coming off,

 

 

[inan 841]

Magwitch soldered a jack plug on mine ,the light force lamps are good ,but why are their connections such crap? INAN.

[blando 0]

feck the cigar ends off and wire the lamp up to some proper connectors like these. no solder on these just screws.

can you get them from maplins, and what are they called?

[HBG 350]

make sure you get ones that only connect one way if your gonna fit one to your charger aswell,i have the three pronged one that does that,no chance of blowing ya charger that way,tod its a damn site easier plugging ya charger in to a connecter than pulling that tape off evey time to charge it then put new on when ya go out

[highlander 0]

cheers for the replies lads, trouble is im handless as feck when it comes to these type of things, ive got sexy fingers, everything i touch i f*ck!

 

highlander, you can come and fix it for me!

 

i have a spare so not totally stuck!

 

I will be in the town tomorow night hopefullyso if you want i will stop and get you one of the non solder ones from my mate for you its the dogs danglies.

 

Regards highlander.

[Vermin Dropper 2]

make sure you get ones that only connect one way if your gonna fit one to your charger aswell,i have the three pronged one that does that,no chance of blowing ya charger that way,tod its a damn site easier plugging ya charger in to a connecter than pulling that tape off evey time to charge it then put new on when ya go out

 

I'm with HBG (if you see what I mean ),

 

I bought some connectors from maplins, they can only be connected one way and you need to press a clip to remove them so there's no chance of them coming apart unexpectedly.

solder one on your charger too then you don't need to p155 about with spade ends, tape and the like,

[maty j 6]

feck the cigar ends off and wire the lamp up to some proper connectors like these. no solder on these just screws.

can you get them from maplins, and what are they called?

 

cheers JG. not sure what there called or if maplins stock them blando, have a look on there site i would suggest. i just had them in the workshed doing nothing and they looked like they were just the job after the cigar end working intermitantly. try b&q, i think that there for lawnmowers but theres no earth on this so dont quote me. i found these though which i think were mentioned above....battery connectors.

hth,

maty.

[tod 3]

make sure you get ones that only connect one way if your gonna fit one to your charger aswell,i have the three pronged one that does that,no chance of blowing ya charger that way,tod its a damn site easier plugging ya charger in to a connecter than pulling that tape off evey time to charge it then put new on when ya go out

i would rather cut the tape of mate than miss foxes due to faulty connectors.i have been down that road with connectors and fuses etc and i have missed foxes because of them.they normaly all go faulty eventually but if yours havent then good luck to ye.

Edited August 8, 2007 by tod