Blue Sea Systems 12v Outlet Installations
In today's electronic age you can never have enough USB charging ports and electrical outlets in your RV. This is especially true for those of us who work while on the road. My office is actually loca...
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Mello Mike wrote:
Before running the wires underneath the floor, I first had to prep them for connecting to the panel. Unlike most 12 volt outlets and ports, the Blue Sea panel has four electrical blade connections on the backside, two positive and two negative. Rather than run four sets of separate wires, I decided to run two heavy 12 AWG wires and splice two short wires into these main wires. I spliced the wires by stripping 1/2" of insulation, creating a small gap in the copper strands, inserting another wire into the gap, then twisting the wires together. To make the T-shaped splices permanent I soldered them then wrapped the soldered joint with insulation tape (I prefer shrink tube insulation for soldered connections, but I still haven't figured out a good way to do it for T-shaped soldered joints).
Typically I will slip a piece of heat shrink over the supply wire that is large enough to also slip over the two split wires. If you have doubts that the heat shrink will reduce enough on the feed wire, start by slipping on a piece of smaller diameter heat shrink on the feed wire to build up the diameter of the insulation before shrinking the larger piece.
