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M2RTY

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31st Oct 03 at 09:54

basicly i have many wires off my battery for:-

alarm (x2)
fogs
solinoids
air horns
neons
pager
and a few others

i need a way of tidying up these wires as it looks a mess and is untidy

each of these wires has its own inline fuse

if i run a fat wire off the battery, into a fused dissy block, and then run each live wire out of the block then will this be ok?

any other ideas? wires sizes? locations

i also need to buy one, any ideas where? prices?

cheers

Dom

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31st Oct 03 at 10:25

should be ok...although i would use 0 gauge coming from the battery to the block. Also if each one has its own fuse, then i wouldnt bother with a fused block

Dom

M2RTY

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31st Oct 03 at 11:59

cheers, im using 2 lots of 4 gauge i think, one either end of the dissy block (maplines one, 5 quid) and then the original wires from each of the things im powering

Kris TD

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31st Oct 03 at 12:03

i would like to see you try and connect 0 guage to a battery terminal.

M2RTY

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31st Oct 03 at 12:42

quote:
Originally posted by Kris TD
i would like to see you try and connect 0 guage to a battery terminal.

2 lots of 4guage should be ok, most are have 15 amp fuses anyway so nothing big pulling the power

Dom

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31st Oct 03 at 12:58

quote:
Originally posted by Kris TD
i would like to see you try and connect 0 guage to a battery terminal.

HERE
O gauge battery terminal

[Edited on 31-10-2003 by VisibleMan]

Melville

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31st Oct 03 at 14:20

Might be a daft question but how easy is it to get 0 gauge cable from the battry into the car?? There appears to be only a small hole behing the glove box

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Kris TD

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31st Oct 03 at 14:22

quote:
Originally posted by Melville
Might be a daft question but how easy is it to get 0 gauge cable from the battry into the car?? There appears to be only a small hole behing the glove box

Cheers

thast not the problem, its trying to hide it which is, you only need 0 guage for seriously fuck off huge ice installs. 4 guage is more than sufficient for most things.

Richie

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31st Oct 03 at 14:25

Indeed it is.

Although just for the people that want 0 guage cable, you can buy the flat cable from http://www.bladeice.co.uk/ which is piss easy to hide.

M2RTY

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31st Oct 03 at 16:39

update

just bought a metre of 4g red power cable (looks the nuts) and a 8 way dissy block and brass battery clamp

this is stage 1 of tidying up the engine bay/electronics

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