Spade terminals

[Sr SQ]

Wheres a cheap place to get some reasonable quality spades from?
I need them for the 4g power and ground and the 14g speaker wire on the ARC XXK amps I will be installing? Do I need to get them from ARC?

[60ndown]

solder

[Sr SQ]

Originally Posted by 60ndown

solder

Sorry dont get it
Do you meen just solder the end of the wire and clamp it in?

[frootloops]

Originally Posted by Sr SQ

Sorry dont get it
Do you meen just solder the end of the wire and clamp it in?

I think he means solder the spade terminal to the wire.

If it's a crimp style terminal, crimp then solder.

That or solder them directly on... kinda confused on the single word answer.

[ClinesSelect]

http://www.savinglots.com/lotprod.asp?item=PBTS4

[BlackSapphire]

Originally Posted by Sr SQ

Wheres a cheap place to get some reasonable quality spades from?
I need them for the 4g power and ground and the 14g speaker wire on the ARC XXK amps I will be installing? Do I need to get them from ARC?

On the eD amps I used to have, I took 3/8" ring terminals and cut them to look like spades. Worked great.

Here's an example (not my pic):

[Sr SQ]

Originally Posted by ClinesSelect

http://www.savinglots.com/lotprod.asp?item=PBTS4

Great! thanks for the link

Originally Posted by BlackSapphire

On the eD amps I used to have, I took 3/8" ring terminals and cut them to look like spades. Worked great.

Here's an example (not my pic):

I did look at that but last time I had a amp with that type of connector I had to mess around to get them to fit. IIRC the ring terminals were to wide and I had to do a bunch of filing and any of my 4g terminals would never fit

[rekd0514]

And they even fit in 8 gauge terminals.

http://www.knukonceptz.com/productDe...?prodID=ST48BK

[BlackSapphire]

Originally Posted by rekd0514

And they even fit in 8 gauge terminals.

http://www.knukonceptz.com/productDe...?prodID=ST48BK

That's FTW!

[sithi]

They have spade terminals for 4gauge power and ground at bestbuy for like 4 bucks for a pack of 4. Or, if you have the ring terminal that some wires come with, you can just fabricate them into spade terminals.

I actually just did that 5 minutes ago. Cadence amps require spade terminals as well, and I had a friend fabricate me some ring terminals into spades. This works if you happen to have ring terminals laying around, and a good way to save money.