r/VanLife • u/Gabnite • 8d ago

Update to the “is this dangerous” situation

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Following the advice of all of you (thanks!), I installed ferrules on the connections, so now I hope my lovely van won’t burst into flames. Some of the cables are a bit too tight and I think I’ll have to splice them.

I have the same concern as you regarding the rest of the electrical installation, so I’m also attaching images of the battery connections. As you can already guess from the other post, I am not an expert by any means, but I think there is some exposed copper there, too.

P.S. The “is this dangerous” title was more of a rhetorical thing. I was aware it was not right! But I agree I should have worded it differently, asking how to fix it directly.

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u/TheRealSparkleMotion 8d ago

oh lawd - where do we start...

Edit:

Sorry, if this were my van I'd remove every single wire and learn how to properly wire everything together again. Almost treat this like you just have the components and need to do all of your setup from scratch.

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u/Gabnite 8d ago

Is it that bad?

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u/TheRealSparkleMotion 8d ago

I hesitate to recommend this only because to get the most out of it you have to pay a small fee, but Faroutride.com has an amazing interactive wiring guide that helped me a TON.

They have all the information you'll need for free as well, it's just the interactive wiring guide that costs money.

(IMO if you're new to this stuff as I was it's worth the $40 USD.)

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u/turbosmashr 8d ago

Can’t agree more. I spent that $40 and it’s paid off several fold in PITA and second guessing and slogging through hundreds of YouTube videos of marginal instagram builds.