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I am trying to find a Banana Jack to "mount", for lack of a better word, on the end of a wire. All the banana jacks I can find at Mouser or DigiKey are all designed for panel mounting. Does anyone know where I can get one that will mount to the end of a wire, with a 10 to 15 amp rating, and insulated so there won't be any shorts? Also if it was a dual jack that would be great too

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Google for "inline banana jack" with the quotes.
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John Fields

The dual banana jacks and plugs used to be known as Pomona connectors, after the manufacturer.

Hope this helps!

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I had the same problem - couldn't find any so used panel mounts with heat shrink on the panel end - looks crappy but does the job

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I did, and this was the blurb on hit #5:

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Rich Grise

ROTFLMAO!

They're known in some parts (Europe?) as "4mm jacks" or "4mm sockets"

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Fred Abse

If this must look professional and cost is no object; you might consider a "BNC to double binding post - dual banana" adaptor (Jameco 125233CH @ $4.95 with female BNC) and use a standard BNC cable end to connect to it. Rated at 500V, but no current rating given... 10-15 amp seems a bit excessive for BNC connectors, though.

Back in the "good old days" equipment had lots of dual-banana connectors, especially 600-ohm audio stuff. The dual-female connectors like you seek were available, but not common. The BNC adaptors were expensive, so there were never a lot available either. The 0.5-assed approach was to use a standard "stacking" dual banana, which had male plugs and female receptacles on the same connector. The real intended use of these was to connect several lines to one set of output panel binding posts. But you could connect

2 of these in-line, if you could deal with the exposed bananas dangling in space... for a quick test, we often used "creative cable draping"; for a longer (but still kludgey) setup there was always electrical tape around the bananas.

Of course, all this was to avoid the hassle of doing the job properly and making a longer cable!

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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:47:13 -0500 in sci.electronics.basics, Chris W wrote,

Get 3/16" brass tubing from the hobby shop. Take a plug with you to make sure it fits. Cut about an inch long. Solder or even crimp the wire at one end. Cover all with heat shrink tubing. Trim the heat shrink, letting it extend over the end by just a hair.

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