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Originally Posted by protoserge
If you haven't already, pick your battery up by the cables. If it pulls the wires out, your crimps are bad. Don't make a habit of lifting batteries by the cables though.
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Please don't do this. Even doing this once is enough to damage the terminals on the battery even if the crimps are lose. Its much better to take them off of the battery, and test the crimps off the battery.
Also teams, if you are crimping your own Andersen connectors, you can actually purchase a hydraulic crimper from Harbor Freight for not too much money. We bought it a few years ago, and love it. Haven't had a lose crimp in years, and we even cut a few apart to inspect the test crimps and they are really solid.
http://www.harborfreight.com/hydraul...ool-66150.html
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