Doing a swap with a U2000 - what should I do with the power?

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Doing a swap with a U2000 - what should I do with the power?

I have a U2000 that I'm putting into a cab that used to have a Kortek in it. Problem is, the power connections don't match (not that I expected they would... ). Anyway, since there's a molex soldered to the board, I was thinking desolder that, and solder wires to the chassis and figure out a connection.

Is this standard practice? Should I bother to track down the male molex that would plug into it?

What you think?

Thanks!
 
well, I know exactly what you're going through with this, had the same issue swapping a U5000 out of my Blitz '99 for a Neotec 25E or 2501.. (whatever it's called)

you have options, best bet is to go the "pigtail" approach. what this means is you round up some like 18 gauge wire, get some quick disconnects (the male and female ends), and solder the wires into the AC through-holes, crimp the female ends onto those wires, and then cut and crimp the male ends onto your ingoing AC wiring. this is probably the safest bet, since the quick disconnects will be insulated, you can run some electric tape around them when you have them plugged together if you like. I think this is a safe approach that isn't particularly "ghetto" because I have several K7000s that are like this.

another approach would be to crimp some .156 female molex pins to your ingoing AC wires and just plug them one by one onto the AC pins. you might have to crush them a little tight so they don't move. you could put some heatshrink over the pins when you're done, or electric tape, but you better make sure there's no way for those wires to come undone. this method works just as well, but it's a little more dangerous. :)

your final option is to just find the right connector. you could always splice the right one in, or get the proper molex housing. if you wanna get real fancy you can try swapping the Kortek one into the U2000 as well unless they're shaped very different.
 
Wooooo!

That's a beautiful thing! But what to do with the ground?

The ground is in the chassis, I could splice in something, and assume that would be ok, or I could do the K7000 thing and the ground wire could screw to the frame or something like that. This is a great find, Ken! Appreciate it.

~WooO~
 
You can just add the ground wire to the three pin connector and then bolt it to the frame. This is what I have done in the past when I built the same adaptor from my spare parts bin.
 
Just take the ground wire that went to the original monitor frame and screw it to the metal frame of the replacement monitor.
 
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