April 2, 2025
Description
I love the fact that Deutsch connectors can be mounted, but they can be prone to walking out of the mount if there is a lot of vibration in certain orientations. And sometimes those orientations are the only ones available. This mount will retain the male end which has a set of mounting grooves.
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It should load in the printable orientation. You will need to enable supports, but each one should print without using much in the way of supports. I prefer tree supports, they come off very easily. Even 15% gyroid infill provided good enough strength for me.
I printed the one in the image using carbon fiber ABS, but they will work in any material that will survive the intended application.
Note that it is not recommended to support entire wire harnesses by the DT connectors, but that the connectors are meant to be mounted for vibration and wire management purposes. I doubt my design or many others will support much weight. It's not good to have the wires pulling on the crimps anyway, as the crimps are not meant to be load bearing either.
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial
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