12 volt connectors

Not to worry old son ... many more and you'll catch with me.

By the sound of it you have a Waeco unit. The red plastic ring makes the male unit suitable for any female cigar socket.

Remove said ring and the unit is suitable to clip into a Hella/Narva type socket.
Just the trick. I bought a couple from a 12V supplies shop. Notwithstanding all the best advice you'll receive here, the surface mounted ones have the facility to earth direct to the vehicle via a knurled washer sort of thingy. I scratched a wee tad of paint off the beast at this mounting hole and have found them to work very sucessfully to date. 2 of them, 1 with 7 amps continuous and the other with 5 amps.

I may realise the need to run a separate earth, but at this stage they work fine. Makes for a much neater setup also, with less wires all over the place.

Cheers

everyone to there own but i run duel batteries under the bonnet for the truck has its own the other is to run the radios and interior -exterier lighting then i run 350 amp cable about 20mm diamiter to 2 batteries that are linked together in the back to run the waeco 80 ltr fridge all on solinoids that run from the accessory switched so that soon as you turn the moter off everything is isolated i also run 2 toggles in the front just in case i wont to charge individualy this works fine

Eric,

Just found a Hella part no. 4951. It is a "universal cig. lighter DIN 2 pole plug" unquote.

Rated at 8 amps Max @ 12volts. Think it has a little ring too, that you remove to use a DIN socket. Don't think you'd want to lose that ring either!!!

hooroo...

Eric. I've learnt the hard way burning out all styles of plugs and the 2 types that have stood the test of time are the Cannon 2 pin plug (look very modern) and the Clipsal 32 volt.(look like a 2 pin version of a 240 volt plug) I now use the latter. They may look industrial and that's because they are. Cheers Craig............

I use anderson plugs on everything - not cheap but almost no voltage drop and they are gender neutral so can plug the trailer into the car, or the fridge into the trailer or the fridge into the car - makes life simple.

I'm with Criag. I too use the Clipsal 32v plugs. I have gone to the extend of changing the one on the waeco lead to one and mounting one on my 240v Waeco psu (in // with the female cigarette connector)

The Hella DIN plugs are the go.
If you look at the Hella plugs and the cheapies you will find the Hella plugs have properly formed brass contacts with spring tension, where the cheapies only have two brass contacts and often no springs formed. There is generally only 50c to $1.00 difference between the cheapies and the Hella ones.

The Clipsal 32v units are effective and good. However they are *DAMNED* expensive and awfully chunky and large and limited in mounting options.

Cigarette lighter plugs cause more problems and issues along with wrong cable size. The maximum a cigarette lighter plug is good for is 2 amps. The Hella DIN plugs are good for 8 amps, and the Clipsal plugs would be good for around 15 amps.

I use Clipsal 32v gear.

Horizonatal is always +ive!

get them from an electrical wholesaler, much cheaper than an auto place.

It may be chunky, but there is a bit of room in a troopy!