The best adapters!
Connect Tortoise switch machines to our Touch Control System or any other without solder! Stripped wires from 22 gauge to 14 gauge firmly connect with just a screwdriver to wire-clamping screw terminal connections. A sturdy socket with gold plated slide-on contacts pushes easily onto the Tortoise PC board. Our sockets ensure a secure centered placement on the Tortoise contacts with no “slop”. Adapters with slot filling spacers for older nattow-tab Tortoise machines are available.
Our design has full access to screw terminals without removing the adapter. Easier to install, easier to see, and easier to adjust.
Adapters come with contacts for all eight wire connections, with terminals for the Tortoise motor and on-board switch contacts.
(Tortoise machine shown is not included)
Important News:
The current production of Tortoise machines are shipping from Circuitron with green PC boards and a full width connector tab. Our sockets are available with slot-narrowing spacers for older machines which have cream colored PC baoards. Those spacers may be easily removed to fit the current generation of Tortoise machines.
Connection Order
Standard wiring order for the Tortoise Switch Machine
Re-ordered terminals of the Berrett Hill Adapter
Our adapters have a different connection order than the Tortoise. No matter how you think of it, the original Tortoise contact order is hard to get right, especially upside down and backwards working under the layout
Our motor connections are at the center of the terminal strips.
Our switch contacts are the outer three contacts on either side. In our adapters, the common contact is in the center of each group of three. The left contacts are to the left and the right contacts are on the right. This order seems neater, easier to remember, and makes them consistent with the terminal order of our other products.
Easy Wire Adapter
Legal stuff: This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer (lead). Unused or retired products should be recycled properly or may be returned to Berrett Hill for disposal in accordance with RoHS standards.
The Tortoise switch machine and trademark are property of Circutron.
We manufacture our products in the USA. Orders over $140 include free shipping to US addresses.