Anderson Adaptors

[Tyson_Munro]

Guys i need to install a 12v anderson plug to the rear of my car. when i say i need to, its not a neccessity, but i would like to use the electric whinch. would be alot easier i would imagine...

anyway, could someone let me know how easy or difficult this is or is it best left to the experts?

Cheers...

[Pirate Pete]

The hardest part will be running the big cable from the front to the rear. Make sure you use the correct size cable for the current the winch will draw. Fit a fuse of the correct size to protect the cable so you dont end up burning the car to the ground. Red to + Black to - easy as. . . . . . . . . .

[McGyver]

exactly what pete said

[BigFella]

Also it may be advisable to crimp the terminals, some times they can get extremely hot from amperage draw and actually soften the solder. I had one pull out this and crimp all our Anderson plugs from now on!

[McGyver]

Also it may be advisable to crimp the terminals, some times they can get extremely hot from amperage draw and actually soften the solder. I had one pull out this and crimp all our Anderson plugs from now on!

I would definately be crimping them like bigfella, also i have never seen a anderson plug with the soldering lugs or where they normal lugs big fella?

[Andy]

+1 for crimping.

[choc_e]

I am a sparky and live in Emu Park'too. i've got the same hull as you and have put anderson plugs in before. I can crimp or solder it for you for a beer if you like.

I personally dont think you need to crimp if you use a big enough cable it shouldn't get hot. Crimps will corrode but a good soldered joint wont.

[McGyver]

ah another man of the good trade, so would you solder over crimping even if using proper crimpers (not pliers or a vice). i was just wondering because the only time we have ever done a soldered lug was on 500mm2 ally mains and that was only because it was ally.

[choc_e]

thats funny, I would never solder ally wire! If I were doing normal work I would crimp. But on cars and boats that go in the salt all the time i would solder. I had a set of andersons on the nose of my old tinnire for the minkota electrics and they lasted 6 years without a fault. If they get hot enough to melt then you have a short, bad connection or high resistance somewhere.

I work for a power company and I am suprised that you would solder 500mm ally, it would be near impossible and very messy.

[Pirate Pete]

& from what I have been told you should never solder any connections in cars & boats because they can crack at the edge of the solder & eventually brake off!!!!!

As for soldering ally cables I have never done it either, always crimp with the correct bi metal lugs.

[Andy]

I got plenty of soldered connectors to show you that they are more problematic than cripming.

My outboard on my yacht for example. It has 4 soldered connections for the charger, everything else is crimped. Guess which connections failed. Plus I got many more. I am making a ocllection to show people.

When you crimp andersons or battery lugs on larger cables, It becomes a solid mass of copper, provided you use hex crimps. And trust me, I have seen plenty of connections in worse environments than car or boat!

PS. If you use andersons, spray them with lanox often, helps stop the corrosion of the contacts.

[McGyver]

yea choc-e you would never catch me dead soldering a lug now, that was in my first year of my apprenticeship so i just watched with not much understanding, now as pete said if ally its bi metals and all lugs are done with works hydro crimper. But each to their own everyone has their preference

[DvrDve]

long time ago one of the members put a link up for anderson plugs from ebay

does anyone still have the address

[McGyver]

just had a look on ebay and there is a shit tin of them listed and they are cheap! I searched 'anderson plug' in all categories

[DvrDve]

but i m too lazy too search ;p - thanx mc