Battery Cable Crimp Question
The ring connectors that connect to my battery are the type where you can see the cable strands on the ring side of the connector. If I wiggle the cable, the strands on the ring side move. My unde...
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mrekim wrote:brulaz wrote:
At the battery end I was also planning to use a copper solderless lug screw clamp connector: SLU70, along with the oxide inhibitor gel they sell.
I'm not sure those connectors are good for stranded wire - especially if it's finely stranded. I think you need one with a plate that prevents the screw from screwing into the wire.
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Pretty sure the SLU70 clamps the wire between two copper plates.
But it occurs to me that perhaps the biggest problem is exposure. The other screw clamps in the MPPT controller and breaker box are all inside, away from the weather and road dirt. My battery boxes are on the trailer tongue. And already I can see a lot of corrosion on the crimped wires at the battery terminals. They use open lugs.
Maybe I should just get one of the hammer crimpers and a bunch of closed-end lugs and do/redo all those connections.
EDIT: or those Fusion solder lugs.
