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I'm putting an Anderson quick disconnect on my '05 EB to power a winch on my boat trailer. I plan on running two 2awg cables from the back of the truck to the front. In looking at routing the cables, I see metal lines for my rear heat-a/c. Is there any reason I shouldn't zip tie my winch cables to these? I would like to keep the cables routed neatly and secured out of the way. I could get cable clamps and self-tapping screws, but am wondering if the zip ties are good enough. I don't off-road at all so I don't see anything interfering with the cables. Thanks in advance.
I'm putting an Anderson quick disconnect on my '05 EB to power a winch on my boat trailer. I plan on running two 2awg cables from the back of the truck to the front. In looking at routing the cables, I see metal lines for my rear heat-a/c. Is there any reason I shouldn't zip tie my winch cables to these? I would like to keep the cables routed neatly and secured out of the way. I could get cable clamps and self-tapping screws, but am wondering if the zip ties are good enough. I don't off-road at all so I don't see anything interfering with the cables. Thanks in advance.
My thought is the routing should work and the zip ties will be strong enough, but I would run the cables in split loom before I zipped tied it. I try to always protect anything carrying power to protect it against chafing.
If you read the rating for the zip ties, you can get some with pretty impressive strength and if you ever have the opportunity to look underneath a diesel motor home you will see a load of wired and lines zip tied that are plenty large.
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