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04-14-2015, 09:23 PM
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Gone Wild
 Join Date: Feb 2015
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Upgrade battery wires with welding ground wire?!
I want to start by saying thanks for all the help and I advice I have received from my new addiction, "BGW!"
Someone gave me about 12' of this ground wire from a welder. I want to upgrade all the 4ga wires in my cart to this and wondering if this is acceptable wire, and where can I get terminals from? It looks about like 2ga? Not sure? Thanks |
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04-14-2015, 09:24 PM
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Gone Wild
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Valdosta ga
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Re: Upgrade battery wires with welding ground wire?!
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04-15-2015, 07:36 AM
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Getting Wild
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
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Re: Upgrade battery wires with welding ground wire?!
These are the Lug's I used on mine:
http://spectrowireandcable.com/mm5/m...Category_Code= These are the solder pellets I used (or you could crimp): http://www.spectrowireandcable.com/p...older+Pellets? and this is the Adhesive lined heatshrink I used: http://spectrowireandcable.com/mm5/merchant.mvc? It was $28 for everything |
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04-15-2015, 07:49 AM
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Gone Wild
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Sunset Bay, TN
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Re: Upgrade battery wires with welding ground wire?!
Yes welding cable is good cable; the fine size of the strand works real good...
BUT I don't know if 12 foot is enough.... For my Precedent cart I needed close to 25 foot all told. Your DS may need less though. I got my material solder lugs, solder pellets, shrink tube and wire from Del City... |
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04-15-2015, 07:50 AM
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Cave Dweller
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Always On The Move
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Re: Upgrade battery wires with welding ground wire?!
my series cart took around 29 feet to do all my cables . most of it ran to the f/r switch . then I had a hard time trying to find 2 ga lugs with the small hole for the rocker block on the f/r switch , so I made my own.
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04-15-2015, 08:17 AM
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Gone Wild
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Valdosta ga
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Re: Upgrade battery wires with welding ground wire?!
Awesome thanks for the help! I can actually get a few more of these ground cables so I will have plenty of wire. Is crimping as effecting as soildering? Reason I ask is I already have a heavy duty crimper that will work for this project?
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04-15-2015, 08:24 AM
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Not Yet Wild
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Alabama
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Re: Upgrade battery wires with welding ground wire?!
Crimping is fine as long as the lugs are the proper size.
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04-15-2015, 08:26 AM
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Gone Wild
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Valdosta ga
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Re: Upgrade battery wires with welding ground wire?!
Thanks. I want to do it the best way, no cutting corners.
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