Hi,
I dont have the 4 gauge crimping tool anymore nor the 250 watt soldering iron, yet i will probably want to make some heavy duty cables for the input side of a 12vdc to 120vac inverter, the kind you connect to your car battery via heavy alligator clips and one end just stripped or possibly with a nice heavy duty round circle lug.
Here's the thing...
Since i dont have the heavy duty crimp tool anymore nor a really big soldering gun (i have 100watter that's it) i am looking for other ways to construct heavy duty cables like this where each end might need a crimp connection, or alternately some other idea.
So anyone out there ever have to do this, maybe with a hammer or a vise grip or something else to crimp with, and how do those big (gigantic) alligator clips connect to the heavy 4 gauge wire?
Come to think of it i dont think i ever had to crimp or otherwise connect a huge alligator clip to a wire only the smaller ones for testing smaller electronic equipment.
Any ideas, comments, or suggestions? Keep in mind this will be for wires that are 6 gauge or 4 gauge, nothing lighter than that.
I dont have the 4 gauge crimping tool anymore nor the 250 watt soldering iron, yet i will probably want to make some heavy duty cables for the input side of a 12vdc to 120vac inverter, the kind you connect to your car battery via heavy alligator clips and one end just stripped or possibly with a nice heavy duty round circle lug.
Here's the thing...
Since i dont have the heavy duty crimp tool anymore nor a really big soldering gun (i have 100watter that's it) i am looking for other ways to construct heavy duty cables like this where each end might need a crimp connection, or alternately some other idea.
So anyone out there ever have to do this, maybe with a hammer or a vise grip or something else to crimp with, and how do those big (gigantic) alligator clips connect to the heavy 4 gauge wire?
Come to think of it i dont think i ever had to crimp or otherwise connect a huge alligator clip to a wire only the smaller ones for testing smaller electronic equipment.
Any ideas, comments, or suggestions? Keep in mind this will be for wires that are 6 gauge or 4 gauge, nothing lighter than that.
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