i am looking for 3/8" or 10mm female spade terminals

[dacflyer]

i can find some el-cheapos at the auto parts store, but they are not designed for heavy duty use. i need some that can handle at least 60amps or so. i bought some "ice cube" style automotive relays that are designed for 80 amp loads, but i am now having a hard time to locate any spades that can handle such a heavy load, i checked with digikey and newark and they have nothing but the el-cheapos.
does anyone know where i might find what i need ?
thanks.

[gerty]

This may be the same as you already found(bottom of page)
http://www.rallylights.com/hella/Connectors.asp

[dyarker]

Do you mean "spade" or "quick disconnect"? 3/8" is a screw size so I thought you wanted spade or ring terminals. Then you used the word "female", which would apply to quick-disconnects.

60 amps, so wire size is 6AWG?

Anyway, try:
http://www.mcmaster.com/

They have both types, in standard and heavy duty. What I didn't find there is the really heavy duty ones I had in mind. (with set screw, or where the crimper has 2 foot long handles). Try a local industrial (vs residential) electrical supply place.

Cheers,

[reloadron]

You aren't specifying a lug or screw size? When you start getting into loads like 60 Amps you are looking for terminal lugs that can handle the wire gauge you are using? You will not be able to use everyday spade lugs made for AWG 12 wire and 20 Amps maximum.

I would suggest McMaster Carr Supply and get good solid copper lugs.

http://www.mcmaster.com/

Get to page 741 of the online catalog. These are a few part numbers:

6923K35, 6923K65

Those are for AWG4 wire offset and straight tongue.

What is the application?

Ron

[reloadron]

Do you mean "spade" or "quick disconnect"? 3/8" is a screw size so I thought you wanted spade or ring terminals. Then you used the word "female", which would apply to quick-disconnects.

60 amps, so wire size is 6AWG?

Anyway, try:
http://www.mcmaster.com/

They have both types, in standard and heavy duty. What I didn't find there is the really heavy duty ones I had in mind. (with set screw, or where the crimper has 2 foot long handles). Try a local industrial (vs residential) electrical supply place.

Cheers,

Beat me by 3 min.

Ya have to love McMaster Carr. LOL

Ron

[dyarker]

I might have beat you by 4 minutes, but I was trying to remember; was it Carr ... no... McCarr.... no (smell of something burning) ... oh yeah McMaster Carr, hee hee

[dacflyer]

this is the relay i am planning to use,,,

http://www.newark.com/30M9206/electrome ... stid=78459

i already have the relays... just looking for the connectors now

[MrAl]

Hi there,


Look on the same site where you found the relay, by clicking on
the item i think, and the catalog comes up where you will
also find "relay socket". That might be the thing to get.

These plug in relays i think are really made for sockets, not
really individual crimp lug terminals. Some of the ones i've seen
in the past come with the socket too. The sockets i've seen
have solder lugs on the bottom.

Just to note though, way back when, we use to use standard lug
crimp terminals up to 100 amps, but instead of 'crimping' with
a lug tool, we pushed the wire into the lug wire hole and soldered
it. This supposedly was good up to 100 amps. The end has to be
soldered very well though so the entire length of the lug hole
and the wire get soldered. Using the lug tool for that kind of
current was not recommended by the manufacturer of the device
(high current transistor) that we were using.

[reloadron]

One picture was worth a thousand words. I sure agree with Mr. Al on this one. Your best bet is a relay socket. However looking at the PDF for the relay they don't refrence a part number for a socket.

http://www.aecsensors.com/DG85.pdf

Those relays are pretty standard so Newark should have a mating socket.

Typical Example:

http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/26-1942

or

http://www.wiringproducts.com/index1.html

Ron

[dacflyer]

ya i seen the socket, but not the metal spades that go into it.. Hmmm and talking to newark, they really had no clue either..and would not go get the item to look at it. they claimed the parts were elsewhere..