I feel like an idiot, I try and be so careful when building all my wiring, but what I seem to always do is accidently shorting my connections.
My wiring is sound it is just doing stupid stuff like plugging them in backwards, plugging two wires that shouldn't be plugged together like two batteries, touching connectors that don't have a housing on yet. I even plugged in balance wires together while the batteries were still connected in series, lucky I only burnt my extension wires.
I must have shorted over 10 connectors since I started this ebike hobby. Just today I got my rear air shock back from being repaired, I spent all day yesterday building my bike stronger, placing batteries better, looking forward to seeing if my air shock would be fixed. While plugging my batteries in series, I accidently plugged in two battery wire harnesses together and poof just destroyed two 6mm bullet connectors. I thought I was plugging my wires into my series connector and plugged two battery wires harnesses together.
I swore to be more careful when plugging everything in, I always do after every accidental shorting, only to later almost short another connector I had to resolder by touching the positive and negative connectors that I had yet to but the plastic housing on. I was extremely lucky and not sure how they did not touch each other.
It is like I just do not think when plugging stuff together, I just do it and then poof as I accidently shouldn't have done that. The problem is I obviously just don't take a few seconds and think about what I'm plugging in. Very stupid I know, but when you are always plugging and unplugging connections you just sort of daydream while doing it after a while. There are so many connectors to plug together that with enough time you will eventually do something stupid.
I am wondering if anyone will also admit to shorting lots of their connectors? Or am I the only person who seems to always do this? I am thinking about devising something like numbering all my connectors this way I match numbers up before plugging them in.
My wiring is sound it is just doing stupid stuff like plugging them in backwards, plugging two wires that shouldn't be plugged together like two batteries, touching connectors that don't have a housing on yet. I even plugged in balance wires together while the batteries were still connected in series, lucky I only burnt my extension wires.
I must have shorted over 10 connectors since I started this ebike hobby. Just today I got my rear air shock back from being repaired, I spent all day yesterday building my bike stronger, placing batteries better, looking forward to seeing if my air shock would be fixed. While plugging my batteries in series, I accidently plugged in two battery wire harnesses together and poof just destroyed two 6mm bullet connectors. I thought I was plugging my wires into my series connector and plugged two battery wires harnesses together.
I swore to be more careful when plugging everything in, I always do after every accidental shorting, only to later almost short another connector I had to resolder by touching the positive and negative connectors that I had yet to but the plastic housing on. I was extremely lucky and not sure how they did not touch each other.
It is like I just do not think when plugging stuff together, I just do it and then poof as I accidently shouldn't have done that. The problem is I obviously just don't take a few seconds and think about what I'm plugging in. Very stupid I know, but when you are always plugging and unplugging connections you just sort of daydream while doing it after a while. There are so many connectors to plug together that with enough time you will eventually do something stupid.
I am wondering if anyone will also admit to shorting lots of their connectors? Or am I the only person who seems to always do this? I am thinking about devising something like numbering all my connectors this way I match numbers up before plugging them in.