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wiring joint question
Steve Lusardi wrote: Many equipment manufacturers insist that NO cable splicing be done EVER. No method is without potential trouble and often splices, after corrosion, are fire hazards. Steve Steve I second that! My boat was built in 1979 someplace around SF Bay, CA. Has spent its whole life on the west coast. I flipped on a mast head light about the second year I owned my then 25 yo boat. Nothing on the tri color. Then the fun started. After a few days the short turned out to be a SPLICED wire about half way between the panel and the mast step. That problem wire was nested inside a tangle of about 9 other wires. Plus the splice "looked" great. All shrink tubed and all. Just took a long time to find the damn thing. So I opened the splice. Ugg! The crud went about three inches up the strands on either side of the splice. I found two other wires spliced in that same rat nest. Lesson learned: Never splice wires unless you want to make somebody's life very miserable a few years later. Solution: I cut the splice out and put in another so I could go sailing...................................... later gutted it all. The wire needed to be sized up for the run anyway. The boat manufacture sized the mast head lights for a 10% volt drop. I though, and USCG/ABYC too, that 3% volt drop was better. Thy shalt not splice........... please. Bob |
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