Practical Wiring - Professional Motorsport: "Mil-spec"
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"Mil-spec"
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| 00:00 | - Mil-spec has become a commonly used term when talking about automotive wiring. |
| 00:06 | And is thrown about with what seems like little understanding of its meaning. |
| 00:10 | Mil-spec is a shorthand way of saying something, not just wiring, has been built to a military specification standard. |
| 00:17 | As lives literally depend on things being well engineered and reliable when used in a military setting, military specifications are very precise and demand exacting standards. |
| 00:29 | Many of the aims of the military specifications line up with our goals in the motorsport world. |
| 00:34 | As we also want the parts we're dealing with to be well engineered and reliable. |
| 00:39 | For this reason, particularly in the automotive wiring world, many of the standards we use have been developed from military specifications. |
| 00:46 | The term Mil-Spec does not apply to these standards though. |
| 00:50 | And for that reason the only place you'll hear the term mentioned in this course is in this section. |
| 00:55 | An example of this can be seen with the circular connectors commonly used at a professional motorsport level. |
| 01:01 | Primarily produced by Deutsch and Souriau. |
| 01:04 | The specifications of these connectors are certainly derived from a military specification but they have been modified to better suit our motorsport goals. |
| 01:13 | They're lighter, often more densely populated with pins, and accept the smaller sizes of wire that we use in a professional motorsport wiring harness. |
