I have a BMV700 battery monitor (2 years old, works great). I I need to shorten the 10M (!) data cable. The data cable connectors are simply described as RJ12 in the specs. I have a 6P6C crimper and bought RJ12 plug connectors but these connectors don't fit into the place the data cable plugs into the shunt. Is there anything else I should know about the connectors to ensure I next purchase ones that fit? Thanks!
Hi @jpiercy
did you crimp it yet? before crimping it doesn't fit indeed...
OMG, of course, thank you. I've crimped lots of electrical wire before but never data lines and I didn't want to mess this one up as I threaded the data line from shunt to monitor up behind the inner wall of my van to get the monitor at eye level and I will never reach that data cable again. I'll go practice crimping a few of these plugs on a spare data cable now to get the hang of it and check for fit. Thanks so much!
@jpiercy, it's definitely an RJ12 jack that the BMV-7xx battery monitors use... I'm curious as to what kind of jack you actually ended up with, though, since a great deal of the RJs are actually the same size just with different pinouts... are the plugs you ended up with bigger or smaller than the port on the shunt PCB?
