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05-14-2022
#171
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06-15-2022
#172
Re: Bought the Civic Hatch lease out, so rebooting the install thread
A big step towards getting things back on track... I'm ready to do the deed and get this in.
I had a few urgent items in life:
- * Wedding planning as that's getting close...
* Total rebook of our honeymoon from Hawaii to Barbados after the cruise last-minute cancelled ours...
* I picked up a new summer toy to replace the motorcycle (now for sale).
But let's get this back on track!
Today worked out surprisingly well.
I've been hiding this rectangular, long-discontinued copper IXOS cable from everyone, as a fun surprise:
I've got a bunch of their NOS fittings as well - I bet you spotted the rectangular 1/0 fittings on my capacitor bars in the amp rack pics earlier and wondered "what the hell?"
Well, that WAS going to work perfectly here since I have two factory 8 or 4 gauge wires in this factory crimp:
The plan WAS to cut them loose, crimp an 8 gauge or 4 gauge ferrule on each, and use one of the IXOS terminals with the two sitting side by side in that rectangular opening, held securely by the two set screws.
But I didn't have any 8 gauge ferrules. And my ferrule crimper only goes to 10 gauge. Son of a...
Wait just a minute. What if... Let's grab the metal shears and:
I mean - it's already crimped securely.
And, it's flat on the bottom and probably makes more contact area:
Hey - let's try. This isn't the system side.
The shape and size fit perfect. Like they were made for that. That's luck.
AND - more importantly - now I'm all set to run the IXOS 1/0 to the back and get this thing installed.
I have another rectangular 1/0 terminal for the other Allen bolt on the battery terminal, all ready for that IXOS power wire.
And also lucky - the negative is pretty ideally set for doing the big-3, with it's ring-friendly design.
Things are coming together - let's get this done before the wedding.
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08-27-2022
#173
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08-27-2022
#174
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