What connector

[copperglobe]

Try to make this simple to describe.....

In your SS bay box. It's wet, cold in winter, hot in summer, corrosive, tough on wires and connectors. You've got two wires to connect together. Had a wire simply break tonight at the point where it left a crimp connector. It wasn't that old. Appeared to be mostly water/corrosion caused.

What connectors do you use to connect those two wires together? It needs to be secure but also have the ability to disconnect when something goes south and needs replacing.

 

[MEP001]

Are you using tinned stranded wire? That goes a really long way to prevent corrosion.

I use at least 18ga wire and I use crimp connectors that are big enough to fit a little of the insulation into the crimp which protects the bare wire.

Even thin stranded wire will break if it flexes a lot. This one kept breaking wires at the terminals until I attached the whole cable to the back of the box.

I like to use Molex connectors at the rotary switch and coin acceptors, or anything that might need to be changed on a cold day.

 

[Main Street Carwash]

I have bus bars in my meter boxes that connect the components in the door to the run going to ER. Usually my wire to wire connections are with small wire nuts and rotary switch and bus bar screw down connections have connectors crimped on. I try to give all the connections a bit of dielectric grease to keep the corrosion in check, especially the timer harness. I am on an island in the ocean so corrosion is pretty brutal here.

 

[water guy]

I have learned through the years Die Electric Grease an be your best friend in this business.