Different types of underwater connectors to make changing headphones and coils easier

[beachdude]

I am not at the point where I will be doing major mods on my new Excal... that will be next year... But I was wondering about different types of underwater electrical connectors and did an online search and found a company that makes electrical connectors for underwater submersibles, the oil and gas industry, and I guess other applications where you need to keep water out of connections, even under pressure at depth. They even have inline connections too:

http://seaconworldwide.com/products/electrical-dry-mate/rm-rubber-molded/

Wouldn't these types of in-line connections work for a mod on an excal - where you have 2 pigtails coming out of your Excal control pod and you could just plug headphones into one, and a coil into another? This would allow you to change coil sizes on the fly or headphones even, without having to open the control pod all the time.

Have any of you mod wizards (points at OBN) tried sourcing other types of connectors for your mods?

 

[Critterhunter]

Look in the coil accesseries sticky. It might be halfway into that thread and other posts related further on from there or so, but there are a bunch of thread links to waterproof coil connector mods for the Excal.

 

[deepdiger60]

Beachdude those cables you show are ex stream deep water high voltage connectors like for oil rigs , deep submersibles rigs , rated 10,000 psi 600 volts plus gold plated to last many years if you can afford those your the man BIG BUCKS !! lol , take Critters advice and look in the Excal accessories tread sticky Jim

 

[OldBeechnut]

I check those out sometime ago or some similar, they were like 2 hundred dollars for one hookup. I use the Bulgin mini 400's for the headphones with no problems, so I can switch my headphones between the CZ/DF/excalibur..so far all has been ok...But when it comes to the coil side, there is something about breaking that coil wire, I know the excalibur's cable is not shielded, but seems when you do cut and it is not insulate well you get something called capacitive effects? Where if it gets wet, it goes crazy/falses. I know with a PI, you break the shielding it will create a small field, if you don't solder the two shieldings together....it will pick up everything as it is brushed thur the saltwater....the only person I have seen have any luck with coil connectors is Eric, he uses Doc's waterproof connectors....

On the headphones I use a bulk head connector on the headphone cup, then a male connector on all of the headphone cords...