Are MC4 connectors a good quick disconnect?
After a 2 month plus backorder on 2 GO160 panels I'm gonna have them next week sometime. I'm mounting them at the top front of our Lance 2285. We currently park/store under a roof and plug into a 20a ...
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RJsfishin wrote:
They suck,... are hard to connect (crimp) onto new cables.
I had 2 of them fail, I forget what happened.
And I had one of those 2 into 1 adapters fail break.
I ended chopping them all off, solder everything in combiner boxes.
We go to the moon and back, and we can't make a better connector than that ?
I've had very good luck with the MC4's used with my portable panels. I don't connnect/disconnect under load, and you do need to pinch the tabs to disconnect a pair. However I've used them for over 4 years, probably over 250 connect/disconnects, been pulled on and abused and haven't had a failure.
I crimp them onto cables with a industrial caliber crimper with the correct crimp die and they have been very robust.
I use them to easily series connect multiple portable panels. then to a mc4 to anderson adapter for the extension cords.
However, proper connections to the wire does need top quality crimpers, not the typical hardware store/harbor freight crimper.
i use the anderson connector for the extension cable and connecting to the trailer.
