<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><DIV>James, good point, I always like to have a solder connection if I can, I may try and do that ahead of time and leave a foot or so of wire.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian<BR><BR>--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:<BR><BR>From: James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] elec thru hulls<BR>Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:43:37 +0000<BR><BR></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV>Brian. I would suggest threading for the reason Hank says, but also so you can screw on the wire connections with nuts and washers. Soldering onto those thick copper rods is difficult and if you've potted them first, you risk breaking out the epoxy with the heat. Or solder the wires to the rods before potting. I didn't of course and had to break the whole lot out and start again. In fact I think I must have made almost everything on my sub twice. :)</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>On 23 January 2017 at 15:53, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <SPAN dir="ltr"><<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><DIV style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV>Hank, Do you put a proper thread through the entire length or just a cut that is not intended to have a threaded bolt go thru ?</DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian<BR><BR>--- <A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A> wrote:<BR><BR>From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] elec thru hulls<BR>Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:20:35 +0000 (UTC)<BR><BR></DIV><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><DIV><SPAN>Brian,</SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN>Those look very nice, and you will enjoy filling them with epoxy with such a big throat. I have to use a syringe in some cases. The only critique I could have is, I always thread the inside of my penetrators. I have no idea if it matters, but my theory is, the water has a tougher journey to make going over threads and the epoxy has more surface area to grab. </SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN>Hank</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><BR><BR></DIV><DIV style="display: block;"> <DIV style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <DIV style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, January 23, 2017 1:08 AM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR></FONT></DIV> <BR><BR> <DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>Hi Brian,</DIV><DIV>I am not an expert, but I use a small gas torch on the heavy stuff. </DIV><DIV>Just heat the rod & wire up well first. Hank or someone else with experience</DIV><DIV>might want to comment, but I would wind the wire around the rod & </DIV><DIV>solder it then cut back any excess wire sticking up after soldering.</DIV><DIV>Alan</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR><BR><DIV>Sent from my iPad</DIV></DIV><DIV><DIV><BR>On 23/01/2017, at 8:07 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV>Hi Alan, There is a larger diameter bore on the ocean side yes, goes from 1 5/32 down to 7/8" . I'm going to run the wires thru a vinyl tube filled with oil . I think I'm going to need a heavy duty soldering iron to solder the # 5 wire to the 3/16" solid rod however! Not sure </DIV><DIV>if my little iron is up to the job !</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV><DIV><BR><BR>--- <A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A> wrote:<BR><BR>From: Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] elec thru hulls<BR>Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 03:32:18 +0000 (UTC)<BR><BR></DIV><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><DIV><SPAN>Very good Brian.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN>Is there a step or cone shape in the seaward side of the through-hull to</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN>key in the potting mix? Also how are you coating the wiring coming in to</SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN>the through-hull.</SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><SPAN>Cheers Alan</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR><BR></DIV><DIV style="display: block;"> <DIV style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <DIV style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <DIV dir="ltr"> <FONT face="Arial" size="2"> </FONT><HR size="1"> <B><SPAN style="font-weight: bold;">From:</SPAN></B> Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR> <B><SPAN style="font-weight: bold;">To:</SPAN></B> PSubs <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> <BR> <B><SPAN style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, January 23, 2017 3:38 PM<BR> <B><SPAN style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</SPAN></B> [PSUBS-MAILIST] elec thru hulls<BR> </DIV> <DIV><BR><DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV>Hi All,</DIV><DIV> Been working on my electrical thru hull penetrators. I'm going to have three 3/16" copper conductors going through them. I still need to pot the conductors in. They are going through a 1 1/2" aluminum disk which is exactly the same size as my acrylic viewport .</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Here's a pic:</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Personal_Submersibles mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</A><BR><A href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</A><BR><BR><BR></DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV></DIV>_______________________________________________
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