Battery Cable Question

golfingff

Hello, newbie here wondering what the best way to splice a 6 ga. battery cable would be? When I bought my cart the existing main + 6 ga. cable existing in the 2000 Club Car was corroded so I cut off the corroded portion and I bought some more 6 ga cable. I was wondering the best way to splice these so I get the length back to make the connection to the battery? Thanks in advance for help with this

BGW

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rib33024

no splice, not good. --- Where did you get the new cable ? auto parts store??, put a whole new cable in, 12 years old, they all need to bee changed to 4ga welding cable

golfingff

Thanks for the reply. Actually I ordered it through a golf cart store (260 strand I believe?) Wish I had known this before, as I spent about 30.00 on this piece of wire due to shipping charges! So your saying that I should just change the main + and main - wire to 4 ga like the rest of the cables that I purchased? Also found a related post on this and this was the advice given re: changing the cables. Wondering what your thoughts were on this?
"Yes, just the # 6 wires, if you are unsure about the wiring, just do them one at a time and make sure you hold the bottom nut on the motor studs and don't let the stud spin at all. I usually spray penetrating oil on those the day before the project. Best to use 2 wrenches, no socket/ratchets" Let me know if this sounds like good advice for changing these?

Thanks again for the help, Jake

scottyb

4g welding cable should be over 400 strands. Anything less is substandard... now if you had to splice a cable you would cut it back to clean material, flux and solder it.... if you had to. Sounds like you may need a new set of cables.

erict

I would since they are original. When did you replace the other cables with 4ga?

golfingff

Just bought this cart and it had no batteries. I purchased brand new set of 8v batteries and decided that I would upgrade to 4ga cables while I was at it. The 260 strand wire is 6ga (not 4ga) and as I understand this is good quality 6 ga. wire. The existing wires for the main + and - were 6 ga and I thought that I could just cut off corroded part of cable and splice with some high quality new? Now from feedback it sounds as though I wasted the 30.00 and should have just purchased new 4ga wires to replace the oem existing 6 ga? Thanks again to all that have helped out here

Stevegrmich

. . . you have 4ga connecting the battery pack together but have 6ga restricting the draw to the cart . . . replace the 6ga with quality 4ga . . .

golfingff

Sounds logical to me. How many other cables need to be changed to 4 ga to do this right? I just got some other advice that I should change the other wires that go from the switch to the motor and controller as well?? Thanks again for the help!

tlr6334

all of them, the chain (battery cable) is only as good as it's weakest link.
Tommy

golfingff

Ok. Sounds good. How much should I expect to pay for the rest of the high quality 4 ga. cables? I already have the 5 shorter ones for the batteries themselves. Thanks again