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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote:

When an occasional boat from here gets a pilot house window smashed out
during a heavy sea (in the North Pacific), most everything with open backs
and those cute little "European" terminal blocks is junk before it is
possible to throw it into fresh running water.

Old Chief Lynn


I can attest to the above in SPADES.... NOTHING beats nice Enclosed
Equipment with Packing Glands, with the connections inside, done with
Crimp Terminals on a Terminal Strip. All the old Furuno Radar
Interconnect Cables were done this way, never saw one of those die
from corrosion, unless the ORing, on the cover failed.

Bruce in alaska
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