[bensherman]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Al,
Correct on all counts. To add one thing, the power lines need insulation in some form. A terminal block handles this nicely, insulated splices also work.
The chances of going below 10.4 volts is a guaranteed condition when ever you start to move. If like most teams, you are using 2-4 CIM motors, the current at start is enough to drop a couple of volts across the battery internal resistance. Add wiring losses and you will find that the power to the sensors if going to be near drop out a lot of the time.

For our wiring, we have the positive and negative from each of the three sensors w/ 15 amp anderson connectors on them. Then, we have a main pos and neg wire that goes into the pdb w/ 3 soldered positive leads on it (also anderson connectors). The reason for this is that you can power all three from one port on the PDB w/ a 20 amp breaker, and the andersons allow for easy swapping of the sensors. Lastly, we have the white wire from each with a PWM connector to go into the digital sidecar ports. The black wire was cut off as we don't use it. This configuration worked perfectly for us during testing and in competition.