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Subject:Re: Ground Stars
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:53:30 -0700

show us that set-up Scott, it sound interesting.

alistair

On 2012-07-02, at 3:20 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:

> I'm not interested in those ground stars so much since I don't want
> push-on spade ground connections at all.
> I want screw and eye terminal ground connections.
> Obviously one can not do more than about 3 wires on one screw very
> elegantly ..( put a star type lock washer between eye terminal and body
> of the van ) .
> I'd probably make a bus bar ground thing ....a well grounded bar with
> holes drilled into it, ground wires to that, if I had to have 'that
> many' ground wires in one place.
>  I would at least move the headlight ground wires there to closer to
> the headlights. That helps anyway.
>
> if I had too many wires on the back of the early style fuse box, which I
> think you are talking about,
> I'd make another remotely mounted fuse box of  a generic type for 'all
> that stuff' you must have added onto your stock fuse box.  And with more
> modern spade type  fuses too of course.  The ceramic thing with metal
> strip type fuses are weak and archaic.