Where to buy crimped battery cable

D.E.Bishop wrote:
there is a West Marine in San Diego on Rosecrans I think. The answer to your second question is no that is not normal and will eventually cause problems.

I have never heard that you should not solder any place but on this site. I would love to know who recommend not soldering. I've soldered crimp fitting on many different sizes of wire and never had a problem and I have purchased battery cables with cast led terminals. As far as hard spots how about hard drawn wire it is hard and stiff but can be made soft by annealing it.

I'll be home on Sunday, come on up with the wire and the terminals and use my Betts crimper. Mechanical but it works.

The automotive industry as a whole does not want soldered connections. The problem as i see it is is the smaller low amps wires. NOT battery cables. This is "Likely" where this "no solder" comments come from. Total nonsense. Here is Trojans take on battery cable connections using thermal imaging. Scroll down to the "white papers" section

It requires the right crimper the right die and the right wire to correctly crimp. You can not have any " air " in the connection or over time and high amps use (think inverter) will oxidize the the connection. If you crimp and solder the solder will seal out the air and fill in the voids of the crimp connection. This makes the best overall connection. And you dont need to spend big bucks on correct wire die or crimper.