Wire recommendations

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Joel,
MCM electronics has a variety of wire. (www.mcminone.com) We use the "zip" wire that is paired red and black wires bonded together. They can be separated by "zipping" them apart. I suggest #10 for all high current motors regardless of what breakers you use.
We use Anderson Powerpole connectors when needed. They are available in a variety of colors and can snap together to form multi contact connectors. You can purchase them through Terminal Supply or West Mountain Radio. At West Mountain you can also purchase a really good crimper for these contacts.
I also recommend you position the Victors close to the motors so you don't have to add a connector in series with the motor leads. Then you cut to fit the wiring from the breaker panel to the Victor and use the existing motor wire to the Victor. We use a bent pushon male adapter with a screw mounting hole. These are available from Digikey. We add them to both sides of the Victor and then use normal pushon females for connections. This allows us to swap out a motor or controller that has failed without tools.
The house wire suggested before is also available at most home centers like Menards or Home Depot and you can buy it by the foot.

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Joel,
MCM electronics has a variety of wire. (www.mcminone.com) We use the "zip" wire that is paired red and black wires bonded together. They can be separated by "zipping" them apart. I suggest #10 for all high current motors regardless of what breakers you use.
We use Anderson Powerpole connectors when needed. They are available in a variety of colors and can snap together to form multi contact connectors. You can purchase them through Terminal Supply or West Mountain Radio. At West Mountain you can also purchase a really good crimper for these contacts.
I also recommend you position the Victors close to the motors so you don't have to add a connector in series with the motor leads. Then you cut to fit the wiring from the breaker panel to the Victor and use the existing motor wire to the Victor. We use a bent pushon male adapter with a screw mounting hole. These are available from Digikey. We add them to both sides of the Victor and then use normal pushon females for connections. This allows us to swap out a motor or controller that has failed without tools.
The house wire suggested before is also available at most home centers like Menards or Home Depot and you can buy it by the foot.

Hi,

What do these pushons look like (the old network connectors?)? Is "male push on" the actual name of this adapter? I tried a search on Digi-key, but it turned up nothing as a result.

[Cory]

We use part # 7479K241 from McMaster. It's very flexible and much easier to work with. Doesn't leave that kinked look.

We used the Anderson connectors last year and had nothing but bad luck. It may have been that we just weren't getting good crimps on them, but we had a ton of problems with intermittent contact, even after going back and trying to fix the problem. Eventually we just moved to standard barrel terminals, which allowed us to take the wires off with slightly more effort, but no worries about contact problems.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Hi,

What do these pushons look like (the old network connectors?)? Is "male push on" the actual name of this adapter? I tried a search on Digi-key, but it turned up nothing as a result.

Joel,
A male push on is the type of connector on the black fuse panels. Each manufacturer has their own name for them but we justs call them "push on" because that is how you mate them. Check the 3M section in the digikey catalog.