need help building wiring harness for wh ballast

[Krux]

i am trying to build a nice neat wiring harness for my wh7. i am hoping to have a nice clean installation similar to those that are achieved with the ice cap systems. i am confident that i can easily plug the 4 red wires into sockets on the little plastic connectors (dont know the technical name for them) to get easy quick disconnects, but i am stumped on how to neatly split the yellow wire into 4 lines so that it can feed the recepticle.

short of taking a wire nut and wiring 4 wires onto the end of the yellow feed, is there any solution to split a single wire into one of these connectors? hoping to be armed with some names for what i am looking for when i head down to radio shack.


this is what i am looking at trying to wire up, the ballast has to go to the socket as illustrated.

[yardboy]

Krux, they have "barrel connectors" which are a little neater than wire nuts, basically a metal tube covered with insulation you slip the wires in and crimp to secure. I've seen two wire slitters rigged this way professionally, but for four.......

[Geoff]

Radio Shack has just the things you are looking for. i think they are called molex connectors. they are in their magic drawers near electrical stuff.

they come in all different sizes. i think up to 12 connector.

hth,

G~

[Doug1]

Will the wire that fits the molex connectors be heavy enough for the current used in MH lights.
Also if you go that route get the matching Molex tool, theres are like .093 or some odd size compared to a lot of connectors used commercially

[adrianleewelch]

Im not sure if this would be applicable in your case, but I just used heavy duty appliance plugs for all of my connectors, so at the hood I could just unplug the wires to take it off. I made a 3 inch by 6 inch wooden plate, hole sawed it and epoxy'ed the plugs into if flush. also did the same on my ballast board in the stand, so it was easy to make it nice looking and easy to rearrange if needed. I used 10 gauge appliance extension cords in between. spent maby 30 bucks on plugs and cords. I know it wont be as clean as a multi connector, but I wanted large wire involved..thats alot of electricity going through there !! I think you could wire 2 yellows to each side of the plug up top, and solder the ballast yellow to each post of the plug on bottom, and then a plug for each pair of reds, that would be 3 male plugs, and 3 females. Did that make any sense ????

[wanareef]

Ryan

All you need is a 5 pin Molex connector. Just one pin for the yellow. On the opposite end where you have the (yellow running ) return , just daisy chain it and have one wire come back. Molex makes a lot of connectors, find one with .1 spacing. (tenth inch) have fun