Dellortoman
Hero member
- Location
- Tasmania, Australia
Aircraft Spruce has braided earth cable in various sizes. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/copperbraid.php
Battery Wire Gauge
- Thread starter helicopterjim
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piranha-bro2
Hero member
- Location
- Melbourne
There's surely no prob using insulated (pref with black not red!) starter type cable? I reckon even a car wrecker could fix you up - an d probably not even charge for it! Might been to add the eyelets ...
Jim,
you can try a boat electrical cable dealer. They sell small lengths of the heavier tinned copper cable suitable for starters and battery systems on boats - both positive and ground/neg, so red and black sheathed.
Another source is an electrical switchboard manufacturer. They use flexible cables to connect into the physically smaller devices so popular nowdays in switchboards. They will tend to have plain copper flexible cables and as an added bonus should be able to make the cable with crimped lugs to length.
Switchboard manufacturers usually have first class cable, not the shitty stuff so often found online.
I would suggest a heatshrink section, complete with internal glue be used over end of cable/lug to seal the crimp area. Not absolutely necessary as it will outlast us all if good quality, correctly sized cable used and crimped properly.
you can try a boat electrical cable dealer. They sell small lengths of the heavier tinned copper cable suitable for starters and battery systems on boats - both positive and ground/neg, so red and black sheathed.
Another source is an electrical switchboard manufacturer. They use flexible cables to connect into the physically smaller devices so popular nowdays in switchboards. They will tend to have plain copper flexible cables and as an added bonus should be able to make the cable with crimped lugs to length.
Switchboard manufacturers usually have first class cable, not the shitty stuff so often found online.
I would suggest a heatshrink section, complete with internal glue be used over end of cable/lug to seal the crimp area. Not absolutely necessary as it will outlast us all if good quality, correctly sized cable used and crimped properly.
helicopterjim
Hero member
- Location
- near Lone Butte, BC, Canada
The boat/marine might be a good option. I found some of the aircraft sheilding same as Dellortoman had suggested. It will flatten out quite nicely but I can't find any terminals that are meant for flat cable. I'll find something.
Jim
Jim
78jotadave
Hero member
Jim pretty much answered his own question in reply #6.
FFS it,s a short length of stranded insulated copper wire with cramped on terminals at each end.
14 years ago the battery was ejected from my Jota smashed to pieces on the road following a big get off, those original/replacement rubber Laverda battery straps are next to useless. Part of the rebuild was a stop at NAPA the local auto parts store, lots of stranded copper cable with black insulation and crimped on connectors available in various lengths and gauges, done. 14 years on never give em a thought.
You can probably find what you need at any bike shop. Why go looking for problems.
FFS it,s a short length of stranded insulated copper wire with cramped on terminals at each end.
14 years ago the battery was ejected from my Jota smashed to pieces on the road following a big get off, those original/replacement rubber Laverda battery straps are next to useless. Part of the rebuild was a stop at NAPA the local auto parts store, lots of stranded copper cable with black insulation and crimped on connectors available in various lengths and gauges, done. 14 years on never give em a thought.
You can probably find what you need at any bike shop. Why go looking for problems.