• Original power connectors - these are 4mm bullet connectors with some water-resistant tubing over the connectors
  

• The controller box with the original connectors cut off
  

• Connector wires with the insulation stripped
  

• Both connectors crimped and soldered

  

  

• Power pole jacket installed over the wires. Important to run the wires through this before snapping on the plastic housings! I almost forgot to do this
  

Anderson Power Pole Connector Crimping

• I manually crimped the Anderson connector tabs without the use of a special crimping tool. I just used a pair of pliers and followed these great instructions

• Small front part of the crimp connector crimped
  

  

• One side of the connector crimped
  

• Other side of the connector crimped:
  

• Soldering the crimped connector. I heated up the middle of the crimpand held solder at the end near the insulation until it flowed into the connection
  

• The Pinecil soldering iron did a great job here! Great little device. These were the biggest solder joints I'd attempted so far with this iron and it handled them with ease. Just had to bump up the temp a bit higher than I'd normally use for this solder
  

• The soldered crimp

• Both power pole connectors with contacts snapped into their housings
  

• Power pole connectors snapped together
  

Final Connection!