Summary

00:00 - Phillip has asked, is there a preferred splice location depending on the harness location and the way of routing? What I mean by harness location is with or without a bulkhead connector.
00:09 Yeah OK that's a really good point there you've brought up here.
00:11 And what we want to do is give quite a bit of thought to where our splices are going to be.
00:17 Generally these will be at the back of a connector and this comes down to whether you're using something like our generic AMP Superseal connectors which are sealed at the back, or whether you're using a proper Autosport connector where you're going to be using a heat shrink boot to seal the back of that.
00:35 But what we do need to understand is that in general we're going to end up with a number of splices at the back of our connectors.
00:43 We've talked about our sensor five volt supplies, we've talked about our sensor zero volt grounds, you're also likely to have shield drains etc.
00:50 So it can start to get a little bit bulky at the back of the connector.
00:54 And what we want to do is take this into account.
00:57 We don't want all of our splices exactly the same distance from the connector.
01:01 And generally what I try and do is stagger these a little bit and by doing this, it just brings down the overall bundle diameter, we don't have all of our splices in exactly the same location.
01:12 Now if you are using a heat shrink boot to seal the back of that connector, then you also need to just be mindful of what the recovered diameter or dimensions are for that boot and make sure that all of your splices are going to fit nicely underneath that boot once it's shrunk.
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