"gareth" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in message
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Decided to Power Pole all the 12V gear here
First sttempt at crimping seems to have failed because the connector
would not
slide easily into the shroud, and it was a devil of a job to get the hook
over the end of the flat spring.
Re-reading the gen, it would appear that the crimping has ended up too
flat such that even
when clipped in, there is no free movement of the wire end. portending a
bad contact if I continue.
(I expected to have to sacrifice the first attempt, but any suggestions,
please?)
Problem solved by resorting to soldering. In any case, the guy who lent me
the
crimpers had been using them for the 100A, or thereabouts, versions for
his
5" gauge battery-powered Claas 45 diesel outline, so no wonder that even
the
smallest setting on his crimpers wouldn't close properly on a 30A jobbie.

Now, whereas the G0HWC websire recommends a roll pin to stop the black and
red pair
separating, and others have decried that lest the pin falls out and causes
an electrical short,
as I have a bucketful of 8BA ex-eqpt screws, perhaps the answer might be to
tap that little
hole to take a machine screw.