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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Chris Bryant wrote:brulaz wrote:
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.
The hammer crimp doesn't impress me at all- a picture of one with clear overheating problems-
Name brand labeled lug crimped with an approved crimper. *Not* heat shrinked, though, just taped.
That's 4/0 cable.
The hammer crimper seems to work better with 6ga cable. The head of the crimper I got is about as wide as the lug itself, so you don't get that deep indentation in the centre that you see with the 4/0.
