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Got a 12ga wire running along under a panel in a hard to get to place. With
great efforts and contortions, I can reach it to cut it and strip insulation of the cut ends. What I need to do is rejoin the cut ends, and come off with an additional wire to go to a different location. If there's slack, I can put the three ends together and use a wire nut. Assuming there isn't enough slack for the wire nut trick, are there any neat little critters out there for this specific purpose? What are they called? Who has 'em? |
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If you are considering a wire nut, then you should hire a marine
electrician. If the wire is solid and not braided, sell the boat. Both of these no no's are fundamental to marine wiring. Proper way is to use a terminal strip. An alternate is to use a 3-way splice available from West marine and many others. I won't go into the proper way to crimp terminals. Pat Harman "RB" wrote in message ... Got a 12ga wire running along under a panel in a hard to get to place. With great efforts and contortions, I can reach it to cut it and strip insulation of the cut ends. What I need to do is rejoin the cut ends, and come off with an additional wire to go to a different location. If there's slack, I can put the three ends together and use a wire nut. Assuming there isn't enough slack for the wire nut trick, are there any neat little critters out there for this specific purpose? What are they called? Who has 'em? |
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If there's slack, I can put the three ends together and use a wire nut.
Just say NO to using wire nuts anywhere on a boat. They're not designed to withstand the vibrations and moisture in a marine environment. Use a splice or terminal strip designed for marine use. |
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how about soldering?
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Patrick Harman wrote:
If you are considering a wire nut, then you should hire a marine electrician. If the wire is solid and not braided, sell the boat. Both of these no no's are fundamental to marine wiring. Proper way is to use a terminal strip. An alternate is to use a 3-way splice available from West marine and many others. I won't go into the proper way to crimp terminals. Pat Harman "RB" wrote in message ... Got a 12ga wire running along under a panel in a hard to get to place. With great efforts and contortions, I can reach it to cut it and strip insulation of the cut ends. What I need to do is rejoin the cut ends, and come off with an additional wire to go to a different location. If there's slack, I can put the three ends together and use a wire nut. Assuming there isn't enough slack for the wire nut trick, are there any neat little critters out there for this specific purpose? What are they called? Who has 'em? I agree: no wiring nuts. But if you have room for a wiring nut, then you may have room for a crimp connected pigtail instead, and that can be attached to a terminal strip in an accessible place. A far better solution. Chuck |
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I used Ideal set-screw wire connector on our boat for 20 year and have
had no problems. Set : http://www.goodmart.com/products/85313.htm Hanz chuck wrote: Patrick Harman wrote: If you are considering a wire nut, then you should hire a marine electrician. If the wire is solid and not braided, sell the boat. Both of these no no's are fundamental to marine wiring. Proper way is to use a terminal strip. An alternate is to use a 3-way splice available from West marine and many others. I won't go into the proper way to crimp terminals. Pat Harman "RB" wrote in message ... Got a 12ga wire running along under a panel in a hard to get to place. With great efforts and contortions, I can reach it to cut it and strip insulation of the cut ends. What I need to do is rejoin the cut ends, and come off with an additional wire to go to a different location. If there's slack, I can put the three ends together and use a wire nut. Assuming there isn't enough slack for the wire nut trick, are there any neat little critters out there for this specific purpose? What are they called? Who has 'em? I agree: no wiring nuts. But if you have room for a wiring nut, then you may have room for a crimp connected pigtail instead, and that can be attached to a terminal strip in an accessible place. A far better solution. Chuck |
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ABYC reccomends crimping all wires onboard and DO NOT use wire nuts You an
buy a three way crimp for 12ga. or use a terminal strip. Soldering is not recommeded from my ABYC readings. Thise is talk about soldering on wire that is not exposed to the element. But realistily everthing on a boat when cruising on salt water will be exposed to the elements of SALT. so CRIMP CRIMP CRIMP all connections! "Hanz" wrote in message ... I used Ideal set-screw wire connector on our boat for 20 year and have had no problems. Set : http://www.goodmart.com/products/85313.htm Hanz chuck wrote: Patrick Harman wrote: If you are considering a wire nut, then you should hire a marine electrician. If the wire is solid and not braided, sell the boat. Both of these no no's are fundamental to marine wiring. Proper way is to use a terminal strip. An alternate is to use a 3-way splice available from West marine and many others. I won't go into the proper way to crimp terminals. Pat Harman "RB" wrote in message ... Got a 12ga wire running along under a panel in a hard to get to place. With great efforts and contortions, I can reach it to cut it and strip insulation of the cut ends. What I need to do is rejoin the cut ends, and come off with an additional wire to go to a different location. If there's slack, I can put the three ends together and use a wire nut. Assuming there isn't enough slack for the wire nut trick, are there any neat little critters out there for this specific purpose? What are they called? Who has 'em? I agree: no wiring nuts. But if you have room for a wiring nut, then you may have room for a crimp connected pigtail instead, and that can be attached to a terminal strip in an accessible place. A far better solution. Chuck |
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And how is that better than a soldered connection sealed inside Ancor's hot melt glue lined heat shrink?
"Wet-n-Wild Bill" wrote in message m... ABYC reccomends crimping all wires onboard and DO NOT use wire nuts You an buy a three way crimp for 12ga. or use a terminal strip. Soldering is not recommeded from my ABYC readings. Thise is talk about soldering on wire that is not exposed to the element. But realistily everthing on a boat when cruising on salt water will be exposed to the elements of SALT. so CRIMP CRIMP CRIMP all connections! "Hanz" wrote in message ... I used Ideal set-screw wire connector on our boat for 20 year and have had no problems. Set : http://www.goodmart.com/products/85313.htm Hanz chuck wrote: Patrick Harman wrote: If you are considering a wire nut, then you should hire a marine electrician. If the wire is solid and not braided, sell the boat. Both of these no no's are fundamental to marine wiring. Proper way is to use a terminal strip. An alternate is to use a 3-way splice available from West marine and many others. I won't go into the proper way to crimp terminals. Pat Harman "RB" wrote in message ... Got a 12ga wire running along under a panel in a hard to get to place. With great efforts and contortions, I can reach it to cut it and strip insulation of the cut ends. What I need to do is rejoin the cut ends, and come off with an additional wire to go to a different location. If there's slack, I can put the three ends together and use a wire nut. Assuming there isn't enough slack for the wire nut trick, are there any neat little critters out there for this specific purpose? What are they called? Who has 'em? I agree: no wiring nuts. But if you have room for a wiring nut, then you may have room for a crimp connected pigtail instead, and that can be attached to a terminal strip in an accessible place. A far better solution. Chuck |
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When I got my Tyler 29, the nav lights, among others, were wired with
juke box wire and wire nuts. The boat is / has been used in mainly fresh water. I decided to keep an eye on it, call it an empirical study. I made sure I had some wire and nuts available, and waited for it to sink the boat, so to speak. Portents abound, prophets wail, but they remain out in the wilderness, unfulfilled, with no light save my nav lights, for 9 years that I know of, and who knows how long before I got the boat. Doom and gloom forcast nowithstanding, I wait, prepared for catastrophe. I give them a wiggle every spring to see if their nuts will fall off. Not yet. The now blackened copper visible has oxidised as much as it will, like a copper penny, still trustworthy. It all makes me think there is a plot to keep non-millionaires off of the water, by any means, including terror tales, establishment regulations inspected and enforced or not, and who knows what I do not know. I did rewire the bilge pump, which has never seen "active service," as if waiting for the bombers in the tx hut isn't active enough. I can see if the nav lights are on or off, so will know immediately if another bulb gives out, or even if a wire disintegrates. I may install led lamps, and keep waiting to the inevitable wire nut disaster popularily forecasted. I said "fresh water," remember? And, I do not route wires where their ends are likely to get wet. If I do work for others, I work "to spec", for price or bling standard. Cobbler's shoes? Terry K |
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Terry K wrote:
When I got my Tyler 29, the nav lights, among others, were wired with juke box wire and wire nuts. The boat is / has been used in mainly fresh water. I decided to keep an eye on it, call it an empirical study. I made sure I had some wire and nuts available, and waited for it to sink the boat, so to speak. Portents abound, prophets wail, but they remain out in the wilderness, unfulfilled, with no light save my nav lights, for 9 years that I know of, and who knows how long before I got the boat. Doom and gloom forcast nowithstanding, I wait, prepared for catastrophe. I give them a wiggle every spring to see if their nuts will fall off. Not yet. The now blackened copper visible has oxidised as much as it will, like a copper penny, still trustworthy. It all makes me think there is a plot to keep non-millionaires off of the water, by any means, including terror tales, establishment regulations inspected and enforced or not, and who knows what I do not know. I did rewire the bilge pump, which has never seen "active service," as if waiting for the bombers in the tx hut isn't active enough. I can see if the nav lights are on or off, so will know immediately if another bulb gives out, or even if a wire disintegrates. I may install led lamps, and keep waiting to the inevitable wire nut disaster popularily forecasted. I said "fresh water," remember? And, I do not route wires where their ends are likely to get wet. If I do work for others, I work "to spec", for price or bling standard. Cobbler's shoes? Terry K Interesting post, Terry. Do you know when the boat was built and whether the wiring is original? It would be useful to know how many years the existing wiring has been in place. Of course, in fresh water service, except for vibration, the environment is not a whole lot different from that experienced by conventional AC wiring on land. I wonder how many boats so wired are out there. It would also be interesting to hear experiences with wire nuts in a sal****er environment. Chuck |
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Hanz,
You are either super lucky or live in Arizona and boat on lake Havisou (sp). Steve "Hanz" wrote in message ... I used Ideal set-screw wire connector on our boat for 20 year and have had no problems. Set : http://www.goodmart.com/products/85313.htm Hanz chuck wrote: Patrick Harman wrote: If you are considering a wire nut, then you should hire a marine electrician. If the wire is solid and not braided, sell the boat. Both of these no no's are fundamental to marine wiring. Proper way is to use a terminal strip. An alternate is to use a 3-way splice available from West marine and many others. I won't go into the proper way to crimp terminals. Pat Harman "RB" wrote in message ... Got a 12ga wire running along under a panel in a hard to get to place. With great efforts and contortions, I can reach it to cut it and strip insulation of the cut ends. What I need to do is rejoin the cut ends, and come off with an additional wire to go to a different location. If there's slack, I can put the three ends together and use a wire nut. Assuming there isn't enough slack for the wire nut trick, are there any neat little critters out there for this specific purpose? What are they called? Who has 'em? I agree: no wiring nuts. But if you have room for a wiring nut, then you may have room for a crimp connected pigtail instead, and that can be attached to a terminal strip in an accessible place. A far better solution. Chuck |
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Chuck,
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 "chuck" wrote in message nk.net... Terry K wrote: When I got my Tyler 29, the nav lights, among others, were wired with juke box wire and wire nuts. The boat is / has been used in mainly fresh water. I decided to keep an eye on it, call it an empirical study. I made sure I had some wire and nuts available, and waited for it to sink the boat, so to speak. Portents abound, prophets wail, but they remain out in the wilderness, unfulfilled, with no light save my nav lights, for 9 years that I know of, and who knows how long before I got the boat. Doom and gloom forcast nowithstanding, I wait, prepared for catastrophe. I give them a wiggle every spring to see if their nuts will fall off. Not yet. The now blackened copper visible has oxidised as much as it will, like a copper penny, still trustworthy. It all makes me think there is a plot to keep non-millionaires off of the water, by any means, including terror tales, establishment regulations inspected and enforced or not, and who knows what I do not know. I did rewire the bilge pump, which has never seen "active service," as if waiting for the bombers in the tx hut isn't active enough. I can see if the nav lights are on or off, so will know immediately if another bulb gives out, or even if a wire disintegrates. I may install led lamps, and keep waiting to the inevitable wire nut disaster popularily forecasted. I said "fresh water," remember? And, I do not route wires where their ends are likely to get wet. If I do work for others, I work "to spec", for price or bling standard. Cobbler's shoes? Terry K Interesting post, Terry. Do you know when the boat was built and whether the wiring is original? It would be useful to know how many years the existing wiring has been in place. Of course, in fresh water service, except for vibration, the environment is not a whole lot different from that experienced by conventional AC wiring on land. I wonder how many boats so wired are out there. It would also be interesting to hear experiences with wire nuts in a sal****er environment. Chuck |
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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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Of course, in fresh water service, except for vibration, the environment is not a whole lot different from that experienced by conventional AC wiring on land. I wonder how many boats so wired are out there. It would also be interesting to hear experiences with wire nuts in a sal****er environment. Chuck Around 1980 Bill Lowman decided he wanted both a radar and a VHF radio on his 60 year old "gillnetter" the "Zig Zag". A real, wood, sal****er workboat, used every year in the Puget Sound salmon season. Quick look confirmed bad feelings. The boat was wired by the "knob and tube" system, with #14 solid, rubber and cotton covered wire. Much of the rubber and cotton had turned to crud and fallen off. Whoopee. Bill insisted that no rewiring be done. He had done most of it himself, and was proud of it. I asked him if he ever had any problems with the wiring, he said "sure, but it's easy to fix! All the splices are just twisted together, and all you have to do is untwist them, scrape them a little and twist them back together." So as not to upset the historical value of the original wiring, we (I don't like to say "I" here) used, shudder, wire nuts to connect the radar and the VHF radio to the vessel. Bill died last year, but the boat was used by him right up to the end. He lost use of the radar and the VHF at times, but as he said, it was simple to fix. All the wiring, splices, screw-in type house fuses and all were right out in plain sight. He did say the for best reliability, it was good to scrape or file the rust off the alligator clamps at the battery posts nearly every season. Old Chief Lynn |
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It all makes me think there is a plot to keep non-millionaires off of the water, by any means, including terror tales, establishment regulations inspected and enforced or not, and who knows what I do not know. Oh please, that's just ridiculous. While the pricing of some 'marinized' stuff is indeed outrageous but that's independent of following good practices. It's not that improper wiring or non-marinized stuff won't work. It's more than it you're less likely to have unpredictable failures or ones that require excessive maintenance. I did rewire the bilge pump, which has never seen "active service," as if waiting for the bombers in the tx hut isn't active enough. I can see if the nav lights are on or off, so will know immediately if another bulb gives out, or even if a wire disintegrates. I may install led lamps, and keep waiting to the inevitable wire nut disaster popularily forecasted. And if you're always at the dock then you've got the luxury of being able to stop and fix it. But it's another matter entirely if it dies while underway and you don't have all the replacement parts (wire, bulbs, socket, gaskets, etc) or the ability/desire to fix it. |
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