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Re: What do you think of the jaguars?

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
LM (and IFI for that matter) could do a much better job of marking the terminals, it would not take too much effort for them to put big, legible warning lables stating which side goes to the motor, and which to the battery, and warning about polarity.
A small but easily-seen stripe from an appropriate-colored sharpie has been marked on the plastic next to each terminal on ours.

Using colored screws is a half-baked solution. They come out. It only takes a small error in putting them in to practically ensure that the next person to try to follow the color code will introduce a wiring fault that can destroy the part.