If you had the Moonlite connectors, you could not do this however.
I gave a bit of thought to this of late and to be honest its not a big task to power up your trusspoles with the moonlites .. keeping in mind all your poles can rotate through 360 ~ and drawing a contact at a common point top and bottom isn't a big issue .
Here's an idea which I would do myself: Wire one of the truss pole + (12v) and another one - (ground).
If you build a wood truss clamp similar to Kriege's design, you could have a small brass shim (similar to to the brass ring inside a focuser assembly which clamps onto the eyepiece). So when you clamp the truss clamp, the brass shim makes contact with the aluminium pole.
If you use this method, you can still disconnect the poles with no wires in the way - the poles become the wires!
thanks for the tips guys, any way of getting the job done without wires everywhere sounds good to me.
i have the encoders/AN installed on my 12" at the moment so i guess its just a matter of working it into the design rather than 'banging it on' as an after thought.
this is going to be very slow to take shape for a while since im starting work again in a few weeks and when i get home i dont feel like doing anything but catching up on sleep.
i wont be starting anything until i have everything on paper, im notorious for making stuff up as i go along but i want this dob to end up in working order
once im happy with the way my sketches are going i'll scan them and see what you guys think.
I didn't even know. Great minds.... no really it's just a common sense alternative I guess.
