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88delta88
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:20 am |
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ALWAYS solder wire connections. That way you'll have peace of mind that nothing is going to come undone and cause a problem.
My dad is an electrical engineer, and taught me to do it right, but my friends dad taught me WHY to do it right. He did the typical half assed wiring job to an amplifier under the passenger seat when he was young. He came back to his car with the interior burned right up. Fire started under the passenger seat, and pretty well incinerated the whole interior. Write off.
There are many good reasons to spend an extra 10 minutes with the stereo wiring.
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andrewk
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:13 pm |
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I solder, then use heat shrink tubing- I personally hate electrical tape for protecting wires... I use it only when putting loom on, or bundling wires.
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andrewk
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:15 pm |
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Forgot to add... most places like best buy, etc, will just use crimp connectors when installing a stereo... They look like wire nuts, but are crimp on instead.
Speaking of which... When I get a new old car, I always hate finding wire nuts everywhere... Why not just do the damn job correctly and never worry about it? But I digress...
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88delta88
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:35 pm |
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andrewk wrote: ...Why not just do the damn job correctly and never worry about it?...
There are a lot of people who dont know how to do it correctly, or that there is anything wrong with crimps, wirenuts and the like. If the stereo turns on after the job is done, it was done right... Right?
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Brando
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:17 pm |
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If you crimp the way I crimp....no need to solder...
For small wiring, quick and easy, butt connectors work great. It's what I've used for every stereo install I've done. Although I was considering heat shrink and soldering for when I had tried installing that pioneer (still sitting in the box), I ended up using butt connectors.
Now bigger connections, 4 gauge and up, solder terminal and a solder slug is what I am going to use from now on. Hard to get a good crimp on terminals of that size, unless you pay a lot of money for a heavy duty crimper. But in the end, the solder and heat shrink looks much better than a crimp.
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Brianritchie21787
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:25 pm |
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Brando wrote: If you crimp the way I crimp....no need to solder...
hell yeah! i use wire butts, and always give a good tug to check the crimp, then tape. a nice pair of crimpers helps too
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