Marine Electrical Splice - Boat Wiring That Lasts
As they say, fast cheap and good, choose any two. Installers and manufacturers know that customers don't like to pay for painstaking, some say "anal-retentive" work. We don't often opt for the item that will last generations if it costs five times as much as the one that will last until we sell it in a few years, and that includes boats. In the case of electrical connections aboard, this issue of fast and cheap often manifests itself in the use of crimp-on butt connectors (quit your giggling) instead of a good quality electrical splice. The butt connector takes five seconds, while the proper splice takes five minutes, so, as you can imagine, with most people's eyes on the bottom line, the butt connector is going to win out, even when they are almost predictably prone to failure in the marine environment. So, who does a sailor turn to? Why cowboys and astronauts, of course.