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i dunno man. id rather spend 45 minutes crimping, soldering, heatshrinking, and installing all my wires than worrying about weather or not the wire strands are going to break when i screw it in.
when working with my brothers car, i installed one of those blocks and had some lower strand 8 guage wire i had lying around. and frankly, it was hard as hell to bend it over them nut things. kept poking thru my skin (im sure we all konw what that is like lol) and frankly just being a pita.
not too long ago, my friend bough some set screw and ring terminal blocks. one ring terminal on one side, four 4 guage set screw outputs on the other side. so i took his 0 awg ground and power, put a 0 guage crimp on it, and soldered it on with a torch. too 5 minutes tops for both wires, and unless its de-soldered it will never be comming off that block before that screw breaks or the wire breaks.
yes i added a few thenths of a fraction of resistance, yes it took a little longer, and yes i needed a few specialty tools for it. but all that is not nessicary for a crimp yada yada.
personally, thats my favorite kind of distrobution block, and if you force me to try and fabricate my own then so be it. but i am never going to get rid of my pheonix gold block that is a few years old that does exactally what i want. i wish i had bought the matching ground block when i had a chance //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif
and on a side note, i think that those are some of your best sellers because thats one of the main parts of DIY stereo installs. wire, interconnects, distrobution - and its all you sell in that area that is useful.
again, just my 2 cents. i wish you would do it, but its not my company. im sure a few people will agree. and as far as 'the last thenth of a volt' is concerned. if i was worried about that - i would be running 4 sets of 0 guage with copper buss bars. *shrug* heh.
when working with my brothers car, i installed one of those blocks and had some lower strand 8 guage wire i had lying around. and frankly, it was hard as hell to bend it over them nut things. kept poking thru my skin (im sure we all konw what that is like lol) and frankly just being a pita.
not too long ago, my friend bough some set screw and ring terminal blocks. one ring terminal on one side, four 4 guage set screw outputs on the other side. so i took his 0 awg ground and power, put a 0 guage crimp on it, and soldered it on with a torch. too 5 minutes tops for both wires, and unless its de-soldered it will never be comming off that block before that screw breaks or the wire breaks.
yes i added a few thenths of a fraction of resistance, yes it took a little longer, and yes i needed a few specialty tools for it. but all that is not nessicary for a crimp yada yada.
personally, thats my favorite kind of distrobution block, and if you force me to try and fabricate my own then so be it. but i am never going to get rid of my pheonix gold block that is a few years old that does exactally what i want. i wish i had bought the matching ground block when i had a chance //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif
and on a side note, i think that those are some of your best sellers because thats one of the main parts of DIY stereo installs. wire, interconnects, distrobution - and its all you sell in that area that is useful.
again, just my 2 cents. i wish you would do it, but its not my company. im sure a few people will agree. and as far as 'the last thenth of a volt' is concerned. if i was worried about that - i would be running 4 sets of 0 guage with copper buss bars. *shrug* heh.
