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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Quickie => Topic started by: jwa on March 21, 2014, 05:19:13 PM

Title: leftover battery box wire
Post by: jwa on March 21, 2014, 05:19:13 PM

Hello everyone,
                         My first post here. I have begun working on my Quickie.

 I have discovered that with the Cerebral Palsy in my right hand and leaving extra length for stripping mistakes, that I still had problems with cutting the wire for the battery boxes. I  have ended up cutting the wires almost  too short to join per the instructions. 

Also, while stripping them, I have cut into the wire strands. I  am wondering if the soldered  connections will be sound.

With all the preceding out of the way, can I substitute some  22 g. solid copper core wire for the battery box leftovers.

Thank you,
John

Title: Re: leftover battery box wire
Post by: Paul Birkeland on March 21, 2014, 08:17:52 PM

Hello John,

Sorry to hear of your building troubles. You can wrap any battered insulation with some electrical tape as a precaution, but the voltages in the Quickie are low enough that it's not much of an issue.

22 g solid core wire will work well for the rest of the circuit and be pretty easy to use.

-PB

Title: Re: leftover battery box wire
Post by: jwa on March 26, 2014, 03:00:01 PM

Paul ,
         Thanks for the reply.

        John