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hi  jeff cote here with ask pys so we've got  a question from another fellow voter  named dan  dan has a phenomenal question that  as boarders we're gonna always or  constantly face  and he asks i'm wondering what's the  best way to join two wires  into one in a most safe and waterproof  way  something like where you have two knife  nav lights in parallel or a single feed  from the helm  so when it comes to actually joining  wires together  the best way of doing it is actually the  terminal strips  so this is a device that basically has a  connector on one side and another  connector on the other and you can  actually put in  ring connectors and the reason why you  want to be able to join these wires  together the terminal strip is that  using butt connectors  where you crimp one connector on one  wire and another the same connector on  the other and you join two wires  is fraught with problems because the  joints of where  wires connect together are generally the  single point of failure that is very  likely  so by putting terminal strips and  joining your wires with  terminal strips it becomes a really easy  way  for us motors to inspect that connection  point later down the road  you can put a multimeter there and you  can actually see if you have a good  connection or not  by crimping and using a butt connector  you really have to be knowledgeable and  make sure that you know and you won't be  able to measure  if you've got a good connection or not  so on my own boat  even though i think i'm pretty  proficient at doing crimps  i actually use terminal strips  everywhere  because it's a great way for me to later  on go up i wonder where the voltage is  and i can expect that voltage further  and farther  or closer and closer to the load so  terminal strips is a really good way and  the other thing if you need to make it  waterproof  then what you would end up doing is  putting inside a junction box with  these glands on either side and it's a  way for you to make sure that your  your connection between two wires is  done in a  basically sealed box and electricians  use those boxes all the time you can buy  those boxes at an  electrical sort of contracting place and  you'll have glands that allow to shrink  down so that no moisture  or humidity gets in and it's sort of  waterproof  so that's how i would join two wires on  a boat without using butt connectors  thank you for watching this video if  you've got further questions  and you're wondering about your own boat  please ask questions below or send us an  email with your questions and we'll get  to them  hopefully as soon as possible if you haven't done so please subscribe  to our youtube and get our weekly  updates we're posting about four videos  a week right now  and also thanks for watching  you