Solder Battery Cable Ends

The smarter thing would have been to solder copper lugs onto the cable ends.

Solder battery cable ends. Rough sealed connection for optimum performance. Battery terminal solder slugs provide a fast and secure method for attaching a battery terminal to a cable. No crimping or heat is required. Coat the inside of the terminal barrel with flux and dip the end of the cable in the flux.

Solder connectors have flux and solder already inside of the connector barrel just add heat. Fusion solder battery terminal clamp and copper tube lug connectors. Selterm ul listed marine grade wire lugs battery cable ends tinned copper eyelets tubular ring terminals closed end crimp connectors 8 awg to 250 mcm 4 7 out of 5 stars 1 304 12 01 12. Slugs are color coded for gauge to industry standards.

Screw on battery terminal lugs insert your stripped cable into the compression nut and tighten. The result is a high quality termination without the need for expensive crimping tools. The pre measured amount of solder is color coded to match industry standard wire size identification colors. Make sure the lugs are made for the size wire you re using.

Then use wing nuts to clamp em down to a pair of these battery terminals or better yet these awesome made in usa ones. It doesn t take much just enough to coat all surfaces. Solder loaded battery terminal lugs when heat is applied the flux and solder mixture creates a metallic bond that is nearly twice as strong as crimping or compression connections. Assemble them and crimp prefably with a tool designed for the terminal in use.

How to solder your own battery cables.