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10 years 11 months ago #33552 by dfc5343
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jtallen83 wrote: 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.


McMaster-Carr
Harbor Freight
Grainger
ANY welder supply store

I used to make jumper cables outta 0/0 welding cable. Ya could jumpstart a submarine with those. B)

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10 years 11 months ago #33565 by faawrenchbndr
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Awesome stuff,.......thanks guys!

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10 years 11 months ago #33567 by OleCowboy
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I get my welding cable from any good welding shop, AirGas was my supplier for this. My parts come from Dell City www.delcity.net/

Problem is getting decent pricing on already very expensive stuff. While I order in qty its not enough to get the big discounts and the stuff is copper. I just placed an order and I compared it with my order of a couple of years back and WOW prices had nearly doubled, but copper was a lot cheaper then.

I used up the last of my welding cable on this job and I can only imagine what it costs per foot now vs several years ago.

My cost on this job I am not sure of since I had some parts already. The yellow connector 350 amp rated runs about $24 the last time I bought. You can also get red connectors, same connector except the amp capacity. Warn uses the red and there is also a mid range connector that is blue.

When I was making these for the off road crowd out of my shop my cost was running near $100 per set, less if you did not have long cable runs, but some of the off road guys mount the batter in the back of the Jeep.
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