Matt, Having been involved with building (and rebuilding), and racing EV's for a couple of decades, I have found the heat shrink tube method preferable, but in situations where this is not readily available, other methods also work. The two most common are wrapping the exposed ends in at least 2 layers of #33 or #88 electrical tape, or using the fingers cut from rubber coated gloves taped in place with whatever tape you have available (racetrack example here!). Failing to insulated the exposed wires have been known to lead to some nasty burns (on crew and vehicle), as well as damaged batteries and battery boxes. Hope that this helps!
-Tom True On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Matthew Quitter via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. Great that I can now interact with the list. Have > enjoyed being a spectator for a while but wanted to get involved. > > I've been using a small styrofoam cup as quick insulation... didn't seem > adequate. > > So there's no product that anyone sells that's built for purpose? > > A rubber sleeve with some sort of oneway binding that allows the cable to > be inserted easily but stops it falling off unless tugged. > > Have searched online but only found domestic small cabling solutions. > > > On 3 Jan 2017, at 16:56, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Matthew Quitter via EV wrote: > >> I was wondering what people do to insulate the ends of live HV cables > during installation and removal? Stop them accidentally touching something. > > > > I slide on a piece of heat-shrink tubing (small wires) or a piece of > rubber hose (big wires or terminals). > > > > -- > > Teaching children to program goes against the grain of modern education. > > Just imagine the chaos if they learned to think logically, plan, create, > > implement, test, and execute! > > -- > > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -- Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170103/8485857a/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
