Casita Battery Wiring Project

The wires that connect the "house" battery to our Casita are not very flexible. Removing the battery from its compartment causes the wires to bend and start breaking. We decided to replace the wires with more flexible "boat" wiring. This is made of many, many strands and flexes very nicely. Since a complete rewiring job wasn't something we wanted to tackle we simply cut off the last couple of feet of the old wires and connected the new wiring to it. The total cost of the project was exactly $20.00. Here's some photos from the project:

	One of the original wires showing that about half of its strands have broken over time. If enough strands break it could potentially cause a fire!
	The original wiring bundle pulled out of the battery compartment.
	It's a good idea to keep wiring as short as possible. Here are the original wires cut off and ready to be stripped for attaching to the butt connectors.
	Butt connectors attached to the original wires. The white tags are labels saying "TO POS" or "TO NEG" indicating where they go. You don't want to get them mixed up!
	New wires connected to the old wires. Everything is tie wrapped to keep the original wires from flexing (the tie wrap tails haven't been cut off yet in this picture.) All connections have heat shrink over them. All wires are clearly labeled and the wire that goes to the positive terminal has been wrapped with red electrical tape to avoid any confusion.
	The completed project. We also added a piece of blue webbing material to make pulling out the battery easier.