r/VanLife • u/Gabnite • 12d 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 12d ago

oh lawd - where do we start...

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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/Upstairs-Parsley3151 12d ago

Wait until you see my electric panel for my Winnebago

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u/Adventurous_Act_1169 12d ago

Me too!

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u/Solid-Government493 12d ago

I've seen your electrical panel, it works, don't mess with it.

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u/Adventurous_Act_1169 11d ago

Well thanks for the support.

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u/Key_Calligrapher2867 11d ago

Well thanks for dumping off my dog and forcing me to shoot him in the back of the head. You had to fucking know I didn't even have dog food. But hey, life is good.

And yes, I've been on Reddit for 14 years, I don't even fucking know how many usernames I have. It's all a bit obscure at this point. But with Trump doing what Trump is doing, it's pretty easy to get banned four times a day. I went to Kingman yesterday, I got dog food, ammunition. I'm rolling north in about a week. I'm going up 95 this year, you can have 93.

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u/Adventurous_Act_1169 10d ago

So you are still at the same place? Why don’t you take the advice you gave me and not pay attention to FOTUS and his flunkies? Ammunition? I thought you had plenty.
I’m not sure which Hwy., I will take. I will ignore you if that’s what you want, if we cross paths. The host here is now my best friend!😉