Building Your Own Battery Cables

I own both the ancor hammer crimper and the ftz 94284 as well as many others.

Building your own battery cables.

Propane or mapp torch like the ones commonly used for plumbing. You can use your terminal lugs the piece that attached to the battery to estimate how much you should cut away. Mail order and appointment only. Special form factor needed.

Cable cutter stripper. Custom battery cables. In testing we ve conducted here at compass marine inc. Simply line it up with the cable and note how long the hole is then cut away enough rubber so that the actual metal cable fits in snugly.

Battery and cable accessories. Clearance and discount cables. There are lots of reasons for building your own lipo pack. Cut away the final 1 or so of rubber housing to expose the cable.

The lug collapses onto the stranded. The manufacturer of the ends recommends crimping as the best way to attach ends. Custom made battery cable. The ftz 94284 makes a beautiful 360 degree crimp that is extremely solid.

If done right with good equipment the crimp is so tight that there is no air gaps and no room for the solder. Protective clothing gloves and eyewear. A full 360 degree crimp makes a truly cold formed connection between the wire and the lug. Basically its just connecting all the cells in serial with a separate balancer port on every bridge.

Get your diy parts here. Place the battery cable in the lug and the lug in the crimper. Use a press bench vise or a couple of hammer hits on the crimper and the crimp is complete. I offer a few styles of crimpers.

Nevertheless i go into more detail here and document the building of a pack out of old cells i. An ftz made crimp exceeds us mil specs. Battery cable repair kits. Solder pellets of matching gauge.

Watch this video to see how to build your own custom battery cables using quality parts. Its quite easy if you know what you are doing and work carefully. Cut the usb cable down to size leaving approximately 1 inch of cable outside the plug. I don t really recommend the cheap hammer style crimpers but they.

We are still shipping products. Cut your cable to the desired length. Recycling old cells. Making your own battery cables.

Build your own battery cables. 3 1 dual heavy heat shrink tubing. Put your quarantine time to good use and fix that truck or jeep. Strip enough insulation off the cable so that 1 8 1 4 of wire is exposed when it is fully inserted into the lug terminal.

Copper lug or cast terminals of matching gauge.