Generic Hi-Use Connectors

[high_order1]

Poring over catalogs now.

Surely someone has found a low-cost comparable generic connector for these? I love OTS, but I don't have a wallet for their plugs...

 

[grantctobin]

Poring over catalogs now.

Surely someone has found a low-cost comparable generic connector for these? I love OTS, but I don't have a wallet for their plugs...

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High flow?

 

[high_order1]

These are fruity underwater electrical connectors. You can get them with up to ten conductors pretty easily.

OTS trade name for their connector is called 'Hi-Use'. It's four conductors, but it is two male and two female per end.

They want about $90 a connector (single). I am thinking there is a place they are buying them from, and I just haven't cracked the nomenclature yet, but I feel (again) like I am reinventing the wheel.

Just assumed someone would know where to get them generic and inexpensively. (shrugs) Never know unless you ask, right?

 

[high_order1]

behold!

 

[happy-diver]

Is it market fluctuation due to manoeuvres in the Ukraine, was last I looked, or am I a bit behind in my manoeuvres

 

[high_order1]

They've always been pricey because they are for people with a government credit card, not some dag in the flyover part of America.

There's no reason for a connector to be a hundred dollars in 2024. The chinese have copied everything else...

 

[Gone for diving]

There are a few connectors out there that I would try for underwater use. As long as you don't need them to come apart underwater..... like 1 canister with different corded lights to plug in...

 

[high_order1]

I totally agree. And I don't need to mate underwater, just disconnect in an emergency. Unfortunately, I don't want to whack off the mating connector, because I have a little invested in the ecosystem.