Best way to join Positive battery cables

[Sandy]

If you were installing mission-critical electrics for the MoD, sub-sea comms or the railway network, or you don't trust your abiity to make a good connection, I would agree. But this is a leisure boat. There are many, many points of failure on a leisure boat that woudn't be tolerated on a MoD spec vessel. It all needs tobe kept in perspective.

Say that again when you arrive back on the mooring and the pub has closed.

 

[penberth3]

If you were installing mission-critical electrics for the MoD, sub-sea comms or the railway network, or you don't trust your abiity to make a good connection, I would agree. But this is a leisure boat. There are many, many points of failure on a leisure boat that woudn't be tolerated on a MoD spec vessel. It all needs tobe kept in perspective.

Who mentioned MOD Spec? I didn't.

 

[Alex_Blackwood]

If you were installing mission-critical electrics for the MoD, sub-sea comms or the railway network, or you don't trust your abiity to make a good connection, I would agree. But this is a leisure boat. There are many, many points of failure on a leisure boat that woudn't be tolerated on a MoD spec vessel. It all needs tobe kept in perspective.

What a load of Ball ox. If you are going to do a job, do it properly, no matter what job. In the OP's situation I would, as an electrical professional consider nothing other than a cable of the correct length and CSA.

 

[justanothersailboat]

The OP's final plan of placing a single join in a cable that is the correct size, with a correctly applied crimp with correctly applied seal over it, is doing the job properly - the job of adapting his existing system in a reasonably robust way. Anything else is waste and, if the cable route is at all involved, also making a lot of unnecessary work and disruption. If a joint in a power cable was really a bad thing we wouldn't be able to have fuses.

 

[Alex_Blackwood]

The OP's final plan of placing a single join in a cable that is the correct size, with a correctly applied crimp with correctly applied seal over it, is doing the job properly - the job of adapting his existing system in a reasonably robust way. Anything else is waste and, if the cable route is at all involved, also making a lot of unnecessary work and disruption. If a joint in a power cable was really a bad thing we wouldn't be able to have fuses.

Never said that a joint in a cable was a "Really bad thing" "Horses for courses" In this case it is undesirable and unprofessional. We all have standards, some more than others.