(ET) Oops, I melted the connector

[Chris Zach <cz alembic crystel com>]

Fired up the vacuum today to do some leaves. Noticed after a bit the 
motor speed was dropping and found that my Anderson connector plug was 
*melting*. Turns out the sparks from connecting it did in the connector.

Drat. Now I need to wire in a new one, and more importantly finally 
build a contactor/switch assembly so I can turn the blower on and off 
manually. I feel kind of silly for not doing it up till now, oh well.

How did it connect to the pack originally? Did one need to have a rear 
PTO socket for it, I can't believe it would have plugged into the front 
30a accessory socket....

Live and learn.