I’m looking for a 5 pin connector type that I can easily find chassis plugs for both male and female.

I’ve looked at DIN and mini xlr connectors, but have unsurprisingly been unable to find male chassis sockets.

The pins needs to support 12V 10A*

*realistically only expects about 6-7A flowing through 1 pin and one fourth of that through the 4 others.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    What are your other requirements?

    • Is this for a production or a one of a kind hobby/repair project?
    • How budget aware are you?
    • you mention portability. How often would you need to unplug it? And will it be done by you or someone who requires a bit more user proofing?

    Have you considered using more than one pin per pole? Ie if you had a 15pin connector, that can take 3A per pin, then shorting 3pins will give you 5 pins 9A. There will be more considerations to this though. Like how can you make sure that the parallel pins present a similar resistance, so you don’t get an unbalanced load.