I have a suggestion for a way to approach the rear connector usability problem. I like to have my 175W Kikusui electronic load ready to use. It is located on my bench about 18 inches up from the working surface. What I did was get two approximately three foot lengths of 8-gauge stranded wire and added sense wires to each. I used a bunch of short pieces of shrink-wrap to hold the sense wires to the load wires, then used a few shrink-wrap pieces to hold the two load wires together leaving about 8 inches free toward the clip end. I terminated, with heavy copper connectors, the load connections, and used heavy alligator clips on the business ends. I soldered some 14-gauge solid copper wire inside the clips from the wire attachment end to the teeth end to help reduce resistance in the clips themselves.? The cable is always ready for use and it always uses the sense wires, since any reasonable length of heavy wire will have some annoying voltage drop. This setup really works great, the voltage reading and calculated wattage readings are significantly more accurate.
Looking at the 6060B, I would have expected HP to have dedicated connectors on the front or rear for sense wires since this load is probably only marginally accurate for voltage/wattage measurement without them for the loads it is built for.? If you are really going to use this load for 150W or more, you may want to go to 6-gauge stranded wire.? Also for ease of use, you may want to solder copper ferrules on the ends of the cable before putting them in the connectors if you will be removing and replacing the wires regularly.
I believe I got my wire out of an extension cord for 240V 30A power connection to a telco equipment rack.
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T. Gerbic
Central California
