I received a shipment of electrical supplies today from steinair.com, which enabled me to finish the left elevator. Instead of using a molex connector, I went with Stein’s recommendation on using dsub pins, and heat shrinking the wires. I picked up some crimping tools and a decent wire stripper, along with the dsub pins and some heat shrink.
I crimped the male and female pins, then slipped on the heat shrink, and pushed the pins together
Then slipped the heat shrink over the pins and used a heat gun to shrink the wrap making a nice tight seal.
Then I installed it in the left elevator, using some Velcro to hold the wires securely inside the elevator.
With that done, I hooked up the trim tab, and then installed the counterweights, putting some thread marker to ensure I can tell if the nuts ever back off.
Here’s the finished product:
Hi Neal I use crimped joiners on the boat and they’re come covered with heat shrink so you put the wires in each end and crimp them then run the heat gun over them and you have a water tight joint only trouble is you have to cut them if you ever need to part them