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Re: Battery connections

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Originally Posted by dellagd View Post
That depends on what you mean by "Crimp". To connect to the terminals on the battery, take your wire and do the crimping (with a crimper) to connect a ring terminal to your wire. Now, take the ring terminal and put it up against the hole on the terminal on the battery (there is a hole in it if memory serves me) and bolt it, then cover with heatshrink or electrical tape (though heatshrink is preferable)
Don't forget to put the heat shrink on the cable BEFORE you connect to the battery... Otherwise you have to disconnect the bolt then redo and shrink it