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12 years 9 months ago - 12 years 9 months ago #33531 by OleCowboy
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Old client who I have done a lot of work for overy the years contacted me couple a weeks ago for a extreme set of custom battery cables. I build them but told him I would get him the parts and he could build, he said no, for me to put them together to spec. So I did. Will ship out later this week.

Got to thinking some of you might want or need something like this so I will show you how its done. This set is a bit complex as its for a fixed install but the battery gets taken out.

As for the parts, best you can buy solid copper evertthing, most are silver plated. I don't use auto grade cable as it way to hard, does not flex well and carries less amps for the same size of welding cable.

Everything is soldered, no crimps at all.

These will hand 350 amps sustained and surges to over 600 amps and unless you lose them should last a lifetime.

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12 years 9 months ago #33532 by dfc5343
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I need a similar set up for my RV

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12 years 9 months ago #33533 by OleCowboy
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dfc5343 wrote: I need a similar set up for my RV


here is a before:

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12 years 9 months ago #33534 by faawrenchbndr
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Very cool........never messed with building cables. Can you explain how the cable is soldered in place? Does the copper looking pellet act as the solder?

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12 years 9 months ago #33536 by Siscowet
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Just what you need for the marine environment.

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12 years 9 months ago #33538 by jtallen83
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faawrenchbndr wrote: Very cool........never messed with building cables. Can you explain how the cable is soldered in place? Does the copper looking pellet act as the solder?

Same question here, I bugger up the insulation on skinny wires when I solder......

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12 years 9 months ago #33539 by OleCowboy
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faawrenchbndr wrote: Very cool........never messed with building cables. Can you explain how the cable is soldered in place? Does the copper looking pellet act as the solder?

Look at 2/3 pics notice the 3 purple looking bands on the connector. The correspond to the color of the solder bullet. You drop solder bullet in heat and insert your cable..this is the correct amount of solder for that size cable/connector.

It's not cheap due to the quality of the components but if you have a propane torch and a pair of $10 buck cable cutters you can do it...
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12 years 9 months ago - 12 years 9 months ago #33541 by MrMarty51
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Nice looking cables. Very good instructional.
Me working for the Montana D.O.T. as a mechanic had many opportunities to build cables.
John Deere makes a battery terminal clamp bolt that has a threaded stud sticking out from the square head of the bolt. Makes it mighty clean and handy when needing to attach other terminals to the battery bolt.
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12 years 9 months ago #33542 by jtallen83
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Who's a good supplier for this stuff? I have a friend who wants to put a solar/ battery power system in his new house. He is planning on building it all himself and has started sourcing the solar portion already. He had talked about using salvaged parts for the battery set up because of the cost, maybe building cables himself would be an option.

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12 years 9 months ago #33551 by dfc5343
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I need the QD on mine as well. Nice set up.

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