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I am doing a bunch of rewiring in my jeep and one thing that I have going on is figuring out how to cleanly manage wires coming off of my positive battery terminal. I am going to need to have 1, 0 gauge wire, 1, 4 gauge wire, and 2, 8 gauge wires coming off of it. And the same for the negative terminal. I found a clamp on style terminal blocks on ebay that will handle this perfectly. One thing that I am on the fence about it that they use set screws to hold the wire into the block. I have never really liked this style of setup. It seems to me that they get loose after a while as the wire inside settles or just from normal vibrations under the hood. I personally like to solder every type of connection that I can. I would rather solder ring terminals onto each wire and then screw them down onto a block like that. I really don't see anything that can handle that for me though..... so I am considering using the set screw style block but wanted to get some other opinions on them.
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I've used them for 15+ years and never really had much problem with them when dealing with large wires. I've had some come loose with smaller wires a few times, but it's rare.
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They will stay tight. If you're scared, use blue locktite on the threads. The Metra Tsunami TSBT-PN does EXACTLY what you're asking for. I have two sets.
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It's not the set screw that I am worried about coming loose it is the wire itself coming out of the terminal. I dunno maybe I am just being paranoid. I just never liked the idea of a ser screw pushing down into a wire that has hundreds of small wires to hold it in place. It seems like only a portion of the wires are doing all the holdingComment
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I just bought a pair of these type of terminals. Hope it works out well and be on the lookout for a new thread soon about all of this.Comment
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