SH775 wire gauge

[Guest]

Hey everyone, I can't seem to find an answer to my question by searching, so I was curious what ya'll ended up doing. The 3 stator wires that go to the SH775 are a significantly smaller gauge than the 3 on the R/R. How did you manage the step down? Same story with the positive going out.

Bundle, solder, and heat wrap? Stepdown crimps?

Thanks!

[Steve]

The 3 stator wires that go to the SH775 are a significantly smaller gauge than the 3 on the R/R.

This is a little confusing, but I will try to interpret what you meant, not what you wrote. It is confusing because the SH775 IS an R/R.

Well, there were no wires with any of the 775 regulators that I have installed, I was free to put whatever size wire I wanted. There isn't that much current that is going to be going through them, so 16-gauge wire is plenty adequate. The wires coming out of the sator are about that size, might be 16-, might be 18-gauge.

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[habsdoc]

If he also bought the direct plug in Triumph adapter, the wires may be a larger gauge on it.

[Phred]

Those wires are a larger gauge. I soldered mine and used shrink wrap tubes. Works like a charm.

[Cassius086]

I had purchased the Triumph plugs (which come with 12g wiring) for the 775 as well, but I ultimately decided to clip the (new Rick's) stator wires to a proper length and solder/crimp/shrink wrap each lead with the proper connector and hook them up. I'll probably fill the plug shell with silicone to ensure things are waterproof.

For the R/R ground lead, I used 12g wire and ran to a Single Point Ground. I used the factory harness 12v lead from the stock R/R to power the 775.

[sam000lee]

I have the Triumph connector too and crimped bullet connectors onto the R/R side that fit the wire and then just forced them into the female bullets coming from the stator. Maybe it's not ideal and looks a little funny but they're in there good and 2+ years with no issues.

[rustybronco]

Slide a piece of shrink tube over one wire, strip both wires, connect both wire together with a western union or an inline splice, straighten the connection, solder the joint, slide the shrink tube over the connection and apply heat.

[Joe Garfield]

12g is overkill for the wires to the stator - it's (relatively) high voltage, low current electricity.

Similar to above, I used 12g wire for the DC side.