Heavy-Duty AC Power Inverter Cable Kit
Heavy-Duty AC Power Inverter Cable Kit
Power Inverter Cobra CPI-A4000BC 4-AWG Heavy-Duty AC Power Inverter Cable Kit
If Monster cable could only see the copper
inside this jacket. Normally when you cut a piece of heavy cable in the
center and strip back the insulation you see nice shiny copper.
Granted the ends may be oxidized a bit but they are open to the air - I
cut this at the halfway point to make 2 shorter cable sets or 4 equal
cable pieces. This cable, while being nice and flexible, looked like an
old penny inside - heavily oxidized and ugly as sin. I suspect its
reclaimed copper 2 times over without proper slag removal. That's the
only reason I took away one star.
Also the crimp lugs supplied leave a tad to be desired, but they include some properly sized red and black heatshrink. You are supposed to put the stripped cable into the lugs then fold each half over the other with "electricians pliers" - My professional crimper was able to fold them but not close them tight on the wire, so out came the persuader - a 16 oz claw hammer and some cement. Yep - that closed the crimp nice and snug on the wire. Now it has a good snug grip. I did buy some professional #4 lugs at the hardware store made of copper like a shiny penny and my professional crimper did those justice, so their lugs are a tad sub par but you can put them on with just about anything. Alternately I could have hit it with a propane torch and fed some solder to it, which I may still do if there is excessive loss in the cable. I prefer soldered connections wherever possible.
I also bought some nice bolt on attachments at the hardware store for $2/pr that have a bar which snugs down with 2 ea 7/16 bolts and nuts on the back side.
Also the crimp lugs supplied leave a tad to be desired, but they include some properly sized red and black heatshrink. You are supposed to put the stripped cable into the lugs then fold each half over the other with "electricians pliers" - My professional crimper was able to fold them but not close them tight on the wire, so out came the persuader - a 16 oz claw hammer and some cement. Yep - that closed the crimp nice and snug on the wire. Now it has a good snug grip. I did buy some professional #4 lugs at the hardware store made of copper like a shiny penny and my professional crimper did those justice, so their lugs are a tad sub par but you can put them on with just about anything. Alternately I could have hit it with a propane torch and fed some solder to it, which I may still do if there is excessive loss in the cable. I prefer soldered connections wherever possible.
I also bought some nice bolt on attachments at the hardware store for $2/pr that have a bar which snugs down with 2 ea 7/16 bolts and nuts on the back side.
Heavy-Duty AC Power Inverter Cable Kit
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