Anderson plug

Greg,
something is wrong as they are great plugs, robust and don't come apart easily.

The plug may have been assembled wrong or for some reason the tension has gone out of the spring steel inserts that retain the contact pins.

Hi there. I remember, some time back, when I bought a pair of Andersons to upgrade the 12v supply to the caravan's notorious 12v Electrolux fridge. (But we won't talk about that now!!)
I had some strife with the installation, and it was because the cable must sit properly in the casing, and the actual contacts must be correctly located in the casings as well, otherwise they will not lock in properly. So the fixing of the cables into the contacts must not distort the 'lie' of the contacts, and the contacts must sit correctly into the grey plastic mouldings.
In my case, it was impossible until I got it right, and dead easy once I did get it right.
If your joints a rattling loose, I'd bet the contacts are not properly aligned within the casings, and so can't click together properly.

Hey Greg,
Something wrong there, I have quite a few Anderson's with no troubles. If you are in Darwin send me a member message and I'll see if I can help.

Noel K.

Problem solved. One of the pins was not in correctly, had a fiddle and bingo. I'm happy now!

Cheers

Greg

I bought some pins for 10-12 size cable the other day and they don't "snap" click like the size 6 ones - perhaps you have these in instead of the size 6 ones ??

There should be a audible click when the 2 connectors are put together ..

Cheers

Steve