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Trying to find one of these, help?

Post by GQ_Rawr »

I'm trying to find a piece of 12v hardware that i'm not sure whats called. You plug what appears to be a guitar jack plug into it and it bridges the starter circuit in this case, its used as an ignition killswitch.

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Post by chimpboy »

It looks like it really is just some audio bits modified to do the job. Not a bad idea actually. I assume that inside the male part the two terminals are soldered together so it becomes basically a jumper.
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Post by drivesafe »

Hi Qawr, they are a 3.5mm audio plug and socket and they have a very low current rate.

You can get them from places like Jaycar.

If your after something small for power and don’t mind end-of-line type connectors, try Anderson PowerPoles, a pair are not much bigger in size but they come with either 15, 30 and 45 amps contacts and cost about $5 for a set of 4, two pos and two neg.

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Post by DamTriton »

Looks more like 6.5mm stereo headphone/microphone socket, about $2 from any Dick Smith/Jaycar/Tandy/other electronics store

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Post by georgey »

You'd be surprised how many cars used to come into work with the headphone jack.prett simple to get around with a screwdriver though.
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Post by BadMav »

Neat trick. Though if a .ing lowlife really wants the car they'll get it, all you can do is slow them down enough that they pinch something easier.
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BadMav wrote:Neat trick. Though if a .ing lowlife really wants the car they'll get it, all you can do is slow them down enough that they pinch something easier.
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