Crimp, Solder, Crush
For a future project, I need to terminate 2ga, 4ga and 6ga wire. I already have most of the wire and a few bare copper lugs for this size wire but am looking for the best way to mate these two togethe...
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time2roll wrote:
If reworking the pipe I would replace with wire with crimped lugs. Each battery would be connected to a bus bar with equal length jumpers. Ten batteries is a lot in parallel.
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A balanced cable connections is very important in larger banks. Proper sizing and lengths is a large portion of AmpH loss in any system. Often negating the gains that one sweats over in other areas to maximize Watts from solar. Cutting corners in the cables/connectors, sizing/routing and protection is not where it needs to be done. Often one sees a great system displayed in this forum only to be negated by cables sized for a single car battery from Wal-Mart of NAPA, because it is already pre packaged. Early one noted going to a welding shop, which is a great supply source. Often they will cut and attach lugs for you. Taking some laundry rope and cutting them for the lengths is a great way of getting this done, Measure twice, Cut once, mistakes.
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