The other evening, while removing my front wheel to fix a puncture, I managed to snap one of the cables that connects to the Schmidt SON dynamo. It's snapped just above the spade connection, there's some slack in the cable so it should be simple enough to attach a new gubbins to the cable and plug it all back in. But I don't know what gubbins I need to buy, I only know what it looks like.
Can somebody tell me what an electronics supplier would call the part that I need, what size I want (or how to measure it) and whether I will need a special tool to fit it? I had a look at the rather brief dynamo manual that came with the bike, but it's all in German.
If it helps (if perhaps the design has changed over the years), the dynamo would probably have been manufactured in 2000 (I took delivery of the bike, with dynamo fitted, in January 2001).
TIA.
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The other evening, while removing my front wheel to fix a puncture, I managed to snap one of the cables that connects to the Schmidt SON dynamo. It's snapped just above the spade connection, there's some slack in the cable so it should be simple enough to attach a new gubbins to the cable and plug it all back in. But I don't know what gubbins I need to buy, I only know what it looks like.
Can somebody tell me what an electronics supplier would call the part that I need, what size I want (or how to measure it) and whether I will need a special tool to fit it? I had a look at the rather brief dynamo manual that came with the bike, but it's all in German.
If it helps (if perhaps the design has changed over the years), the dynamo would probably have been manufactured in 2000 (I took delivery of the bike, with dynamo fitted, in January 2001).
TIA.
english manual: www.m-gineering.nl/sonmontg.htm. No change in plugs from day one
plugs are standard automotive plugs (4.8mm) as uses to connect speakers etc. Should be available at anything vaguely automotive. Most plugs will be the type with a plastic sleeve which you can crimp on with pliers. Of course the SON plugs will be a bit better, but you need a special crimping tool or a soldering iron.
A aluminium coloured plug will be better than an uncoated brass one
Can somebody tell me what an electronics supplier would call the part that I need, what size I want (or how to measure it) and whether I will need a special tool to fit it? I had a look at the rather brief dynamo manual that came with the bike, but it's all in German.
english manual: www.m-gineering.nl/sonmontg.htm. No change in plugs from day one
plugs are standard automotive plugs (4.8mm) as uses to connect speakers etc. Should be available at anything vaguely automotive.
Danny, if it's one of those that Marten shows, I'm sure I can find a couple and post them to you.
Danny, if it's one of those that Marten shows, I'm sure I can find a couple and post them to you.
That'd be great. Thanks Mike, and thanks Marten too.
I'll e-mail my postal address to you, assuming unmunging is as obvious as I think.
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Woo-hoo. I now have a functioning dynamo system once more. Thanks Mike and Marten.
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