non insulated crimps a problem here?

I should've probably posted this thread in the relays forum, but there's very little going on that side.

I'm busy setting up relays for a doorlock switch and radio-off-when-door-open setup. Believe it or not, but I simply couldn't find an automotive shop that had red insulated female crimps in stock. The only ones I could find were non-insulated ones.

Do any of you foresee any problems that I might encounter with the setup as shown in the photos? I'll make certain to mount them in a location where the relay contacts won't make any contact with any bare metal of my car.

This is the radio-off-when-door-open relay setup:




This is the doorlock switch relay setup:



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F R A N S
1985 Mercedes-Benz 230E
320 000 km / 199 000 miles
Full MB Service History

I like using relay sockets....they plug into the relay and you have your wires set up already.  non the less i noticed that you have 3 relays for the door lock setup.  I use 2 for the power locks.  Just like an alarm, i use either 85 or 86 to trigger the lock wires through the door lock switch.  Normally its 3 wires coming from the door lock switch.  Usually the middle ground and the other 2 connect to the 85 or 86 depending how you have it setup. 

Just wrap the bottom of the relays with electrical tape and you should be fine. 

I, too, prefer sockets, you can pick them up for about a buck a piece if you know where to look!

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Kevin Pierson

enice] wrote:

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I like using relay sockets....they plug into the relay and you have your wires set up already. non the less i noticed that you have 3 relays for the door lock setup. I use 2 for the power locks. Just like an alarm, i use either 85 or 86 to trigger the lock wires through the door lock switch. Normally its 3 wires coming from the door lock switch. Usually the middle ground and the other 2 connect to the 85 or 86 depending how you have it setup.

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I setup my Valet 712T for priority door unlocking, hence the reason I have three relays installed. Here's the diagram I created:



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F R A N S
1985 Mercedes-Benz 230E
320 000 km / 199 000 miles
Full MB Service History

Heat shrink  on the exposed ends, also, mount relays vertically with pins underneath, let gravity and no moisture ingress work for you, incidentally enice is right as usual, relay sockets with non-insulated insert pins would have looked even neater than your admittedly neat layout.

Apologies kp;ierson also right  as usual, Howard from the land where you can't get Scotch 33 tape, even if Amp-Tycho and Molex are down the road!

As a sidenote, you can also get 'stackable' relay harnesses (www.delcity.net) that allow you to physically connect all the relays together, while still allowing you to remove individual relays if necesarry.

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Kevin Pierson