Vinyl tubing works great. I'm not sure what diameter I have but it fits snuggly around the lugs. I mostly use the tubing when I am fiddling with the batteries on my electric van (Green Vehicles Moose).
I use the tape method on the battery monitor wires. Blue painters tape works well and is easy to undo.
Mark
Santa Cruz
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Mike <biankablog@...> wrote:
>
> Matthew:
>
> The inner tube idea is a good one. Someone also mentioned the the fingers cut off of old gloves could also be used on the end of the wire lugs to insulate them. Though I would add rubber bands to hold them on securely. I've got some worn leather gloves I use when working with the anchor chain which might be good for this purpose. But, I was thinking some heat shrink tubing with one end shrunk down slightly would also work very nicely too. Put the unshrunk end over the lug and push it down until the shrunk end fits snugly over the lug.
>
> Capt. Mike
> http://biankablog.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Matthew Geier <matthew@...>
> To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Watch those amps!
>
>
> Â
> To 'Isolate' my small 36 volt system I disconnect the wire from the
> battery mounted fuse. To ensure it says disconnected I put a bit of
> bicycle inner tube over the lug when it's free.
>
> In my case the tubes from my 17" wheel hybrid bicycle make ideal 'safety
> sleeves' for my wires, they slide nicely over the lugs and fit snug
> enough that they don't fall off by them selves.
>
> You will often see 'sparkies' wrap electrical tape around the bare
> ends of wires they are working on so that no 'accidents' can occur, even
> if 10-15 minutes later they will need to pull that tape off again when
> it comes that wire's turn to get worked on.
>
| Reply via web post | Reply to sender | Reply to group | Start a New Topic | Messages in this topic (14) |
No comments:
Post a Comment