Electrical Connectors DIY
See pics, then crimp wire in and tape with rubber electrical tape or vinyl as needed. Multiple sizes of copper pipe available. You can buy, but expensive, so you buy what you need, then are out the ...
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The crimp tool is wonderful. I have done hundreds of connections of all sizes, some too small for the tool, some too big for the tool and many just right. None have ever let go.
I found this one on the road somebody left for me in the gutter.
9 inch.
Noted on solder. I soldered the battery connections for maximal conductivity, but crimp everything else usually.
All the post is to do is show how to make the copper connectors, I make no claims for attaching the wire.
They are pricey at the store.
I have never had issues with the copper cracking or splitting under the hammer.
This is the flexible copper tubing if that matters.
I also can connect two wires together with just a short cut piece of tube, just crimp each wire into the same cut tube piece. My solar is done this way. I use the rubberized tape to weather seal.
Also, if attempting this, be sure to make it in the order pictured. The copper is hard to clamp for drilling, so drill it and cut it short AFTER otherwise you have nothing to hold onto as the drill bit torks on it.
I found this one on the road somebody left for me in the gutter.
9 inch.
Noted on solder. I soldered the battery connections for maximal conductivity, but crimp everything else usually.
All the post is to do is show how to make the copper connectors, I make no claims for attaching the wire.
They are pricey at the store.
I have never had issues with the copper cracking or splitting under the hammer.
This is the flexible copper tubing if that matters.
I also can connect two wires together with just a short cut piece of tube, just crimp each wire into the same cut tube piece. My solar is done this way. I use the rubberized tape to weather seal.
Also, if attempting this, be sure to make it in the order pictured. The copper is hard to clamp for drilling, so drill it and cut it short AFTER otherwise you have nothing to hold onto as the drill bit torks on it.
