How to Solder & Crimp Battery Cable Ends - Quick Tip
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In this QUICK TIP, I show you How to Solder & Crimp Battery Cable Ends onto custom battery cables. Whether it be a Battery Cable Eyelet or a Battery Terminal these methods should help you to crimp and solder your own battery cables.
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Pro tip, just like when making custom hoses take in for account the natural bend of the cable cause by the artifact of being stored on a spool. Use the curvatures tendencies to your advantage instead of fighting it.
Very timely series of videos. I need to change the #6 coach battery wiring in my RV to 4/0 and put in some 500 Amp voltage sensing relays.
Oof. I used 6ga on the alternator charge wire for this 55 Belair I'm doing and I considered going even heavier than that. I redid a 53' Horse trailer / Camper some years ago and had to run a whole new cable the length because I just didn't feel what they used was sufficient. I guess when you are building things for profit every bit of cost cutting comes into play.
@@HotRodHippie Yeah, I'm not too excited by the cost of the material but this sets me up later for putting in a 300 amp alternator and additional coach batteries. Blue Sea and Waytek have some good stuff on their websites. Blue Sea tends to repackage some of the smaller stuff so it's good to look at their catalogue and then try to figure out who really made it.
@@SteveRivett Del-City is another great source. Their pricing is pretty good if you need the kind of quantity you may need on larger projects. My problem is I run into needing to order 50' of wire for a car project and I just cant justify it then.
Buy a hydraulic crimper or on a budget get a hammer crimper and use quality adhesive lined heat shrink to seal out the moisture. Always use Selterm or Ancor brand lugs. Temco cable for protected environment and Ancor for harsh (road salts- marine bilges). A hex crimp is needed in one place and should have crisp corners.
Is this a summary of the video? Because that’s what he did, almost to the letter.
Not even close. He soldered it first. If the terminal gets overheated in use, the solder can melt and flow into the strands leaving room in the lug despite crimping. Soldering for that reason is not allowed in house and industrial cables in America. Only compression/screw terminals or crimping. For marine and automotive, it has been found that the flux used in soldering exasperates corrosion if moisture intrusion happens. Adhesive lined heat shrink is not perfect and commonly leaks with flexing.
Hi in those campact 18 volts battery , how i can weld them together . Or what kind of welding tool i need ? thanks
Do you make them for people
Thanks for posting this. Really helped :)
HRH - great quick tip - thanks! Great explanation too.
Thank you. I figure these quick tips will be good for some folks. 👍
Thanks for nice tips 👍
Great video sir
Thank you very much
Would it be any better to crimp the wire and then drill a little hole in that 45 degree slope and then solder it? It seems the solder would then fill any gaps or air pockets left from the crimping method.
Heating up thick battery cables for soldering once assembled is next to impossible in my experience. Well it can be done but it starts to burn the insulation before you’ll ever get a good solder joint.
I try to crimp the connection IMMEDIATELY after soldering so the solder is still a little soft. Ideal? No, but it’s work well for me so far.
@@HotRodHippie Still wrong, sorry but you don't know what you are doing.
NASA: Workmanship Standard for Crimping, Interconnecting Cables, Harnesses, and Wiring
You are just creating a brittle joint
@@____________________________.xDoes it look like he works for NASA? Or do you think he’s building a spaceship? Because if he’s not it probably doesn’t matter as much as you think.
Those were the two worst ways to do this. You've clearly never worked in Industry
Agreed
How would you do it?
@@garymarch4711 Hydraulic crimping tool. A tiny line of dielectric silicone grease along the exposed copper, adhesive lined heat-shrink over the end of the wire.
@@____________________________.x he used a hydraulic crimp on one end. What is the point of your criticism?
Shouldn't you make sure to crimp while a solder is still soft?
Those stray strands hanging out are a no no for me. Good vid otherwise
And literally says not to do that in the video, and does it anyway lol
Yeah real crimpers pretty much eliminate the soldering.
Good advice.
Too bad about the tattoos.
How many times does he say "go ahead" wow... Its probably the most used 2 words on youtube lol.. I can tell this guy had to watch alot of youtube videos to make this one .. thumbs down.. Find your own words
Yea, the hundreds of cables I’ve made before this were definitely made while watching some other persons UA-cam videos. That makes sense way more sense than “scripting” not being a custom car builders first skill set. Good thing no one can see dislikes anymore. 👌🏻
Thanks for your valuable insight. Very useful for anyone who is truly interested in the subject matter.