[David Dunlop]

Been thinking more about the twin terminal pass through on the 2K1 Body under the Cypher Clerk's desk and I am beginning to think it might be a very well thought out multi purpose fitting.

So far, Rich has observed there is a copper shorting bar fixed on the outside set of terminals behind the little pull out cover. With this in place, you lose all electrical pass though ability for the terminals, but you gain a grounding point for the entire WIRE 5 vehicle. When would that be a useful thing to have? My thoughts are when you have one of the steel masts set up on the roof of the wireless box as a vertical radiator antennae. It would probably be prudent to have the vehicle grounded and when those terminals are in shorted mode, that would make an ideal location.

Second option for the terminals would be a pass through for a 12-volt DC or even 110-Volt AC power from the generators or batteries on board to drive equipment in the penthouse..

A third possibility came to me yesterday and I have a question out on the Wireless Forum to check the validity of the idea. Basically, if you need to run your 19-Set remotely, you need two Remote Control Units: a nearby unit close to the 19-Set and a remote unit X meters away, the two remotes connected by communication wire. There is a steel frame fixed to the top of the spare tyre box on the left side of the 2K1 body directly across from the wireless desk. I have long thought this was an ideal location for the nearby RCU to be located. An identical steel frame can be found on the sheet metal 'shelf' mounted on top of the right side wheel well, directly in front of the two Enfield Butt fittings. A great place to store the remote RCU when not in use.

Could it be possible, one could take a short length of D3 comm wire and connect the two terminals from the nearby RCU to the two passthrough terminals on the inside of the body. Go outside, remove the shorting bar from the outside terminals and then connect your big reel of D3 comm wire to the exterior terminals and off you go to wherever your remote RCU is being set up. This form of connection would be a lot simpler than trying to figure out a way to run the comm wire through a window or out the back door where if the door or window was closed suddenly the comm wire could be damaged.

Just a thought but a number of viable options seem to be available for this simple looking set of terminals. so probably worth tossing out there.


David