15 and 30 amp powerpoles do not require their special crimping tool, and with a regular dimple crimper and skills, one can get away without the special crimper tool for the 45 amp powerpole contacts, but it is easy to screw it up.
The racheting crimper with the anderson Dies is about 35$, and does a very good job on the 45's whose contacts have arms which must be bent over and folded into the wire anbd compressed.
I recently bought the tool, as I use these connectors everywhere, and many of my pre special tool 45 amp contacts basically required soldering too, as my Klein dimple crimpers could not really crimp 10AWG within them properly and cleanly.
The soldering can also screw up the terminals if it is allowed to get near the 'hook', and can also prevent inserting into the housing.
I did buy some other sets of Dies, and they fit within the anderson TC-1 crimper jaws, which helped justify the cost of the tool, but honestly it takes a bit of time to change and align the new set of dies that it would be easier to have another set of crimpers for when time is money.
The powerpoles are a much much better electrical connection than the regular 12v powerports, but they are not cheap, come in sets of no less than 5, and the 45 amp contacts, which accept 10AWG and no thicker, pretty much require the special tool.
The 30 amp contacts can accept 12 and 14 AWG.
There are Anderson powerpole Knocks offs available now. I tried some 45 ADEN Windcanp versions saving 5$ over the Andersons, but they come with a rubber boot. The contacts could be stamped from slightly thinner copper. I have no originals that i can easily get my digital calipers on.
I do not think I will bother trying to save that 5$ again. The knockoffs do mate properly with the andersons, both the dovetails and the business ends of the contacts.
Also it should be noted that the anderson powerpoles are not sealed from the elements, unless one covers the back of them where the wires enter the plastic housing with Some 'Amazing goop' or similar.
Before Anderson powerpoles, I made widespread use of the 12v SAE connectors, but found they would wear out quickly and were good for only 20 amps continuous with the 10AWG, before they wore out. Once they wore out 20 amps continuous would melt the connector housing until it shorted and blew a fuse or something else.
Looks like the OP has sorted out what they wanted. The anderson info provided is for others thinking about going this route. They are a much better connection but are not cheap and work best if crimped with their special crimper dies.
Also if one uses Andersons in plkace of a Ciggy plug, well the ciggy plug has a fuse inside of it, the Andersons eliminate the fuse, so if the Anderson output is 10AWG is fused at 30 amps, and one plugs some 18AWG powerpoles into it, then the 18AWg is not protected by its own fuse.
One of the crimper Dies I bought was for insulated flag terminals, to make my own ATC fuse holder that is of a lower profile than if one used regular 1/4 inch quick connects.
The racheting crimper with the anderson Dies is about 35$, and does a very good job on the 45's whose contacts have arms which must be bent over and folded into the wire anbd compressed.
I recently bought the tool, as I use these connectors everywhere, and many of my pre special tool 45 amp contacts basically required soldering too, as my Klein dimple crimpers could not really crimp 10AWG within them properly and cleanly.
The soldering can also screw up the terminals if it is allowed to get near the 'hook', and can also prevent inserting into the housing.
I did buy some other sets of Dies, and they fit within the anderson TC-1 crimper jaws, which helped justify the cost of the tool, but honestly it takes a bit of time to change and align the new set of dies that it would be easier to have another set of crimpers for when time is money.
The powerpoles are a much much better electrical connection than the regular 12v powerports, but they are not cheap, come in sets of no less than 5, and the 45 amp contacts, which accept 10AWG and no thicker, pretty much require the special tool.
The 30 amp contacts can accept 12 and 14 AWG.
There are Anderson powerpole Knocks offs available now. I tried some 45 ADEN Windcanp versions saving 5$ over the Andersons, but they come with a rubber boot. The contacts could be stamped from slightly thinner copper. I have no originals that i can easily get my digital calipers on.
I do not think I will bother trying to save that 5$ again. The knockoffs do mate properly with the andersons, both the dovetails and the business ends of the contacts.
Also it should be noted that the anderson powerpoles are not sealed from the elements, unless one covers the back of them where the wires enter the plastic housing with Some 'Amazing goop' or similar.
Before Anderson powerpoles, I made widespread use of the 12v SAE connectors, but found they would wear out quickly and were good for only 20 amps continuous with the 10AWG, before they wore out. Once they wore out 20 amps continuous would melt the connector housing until it shorted and blew a fuse or something else.
Looks like the OP has sorted out what they wanted. The anderson info provided is for others thinking about going this route. They are a much better connection but are not cheap and work best if crimped with their special crimper dies.
Also if one uses Andersons in plkace of a Ciggy plug, well the ciggy plug has a fuse inside of it, the Andersons eliminate the fuse, so if the Anderson output is 10AWG is fused at 30 amps, and one plugs some 18AWG powerpoles into it, then the 18AWg is not protected by its own fuse.
One of the crimper Dies I bought was for insulated flag terminals, to make my own ATC fuse holder that is of a lower profile than if one used regular 1/4 inch quick connects.
