I am getting the new fiver ready for the upcoming season. Yesterday I began installing the Hughes Autoformer EMS. I cut the incoming cable and discovered that it is not 6 gauge,stranded 4 wire like I expected. It is 6/3 with ground. The 3 wires are stranded but the ground is solid conductor - - looks like 12awg. (see pic)
The problem I am having is that the 12 gauge ground wire seems to be too small for the lugs on the EMS. The ferruled 6 gauge wires fit into the lugs and tighten fine but the small 12 gauge ground wire keeps coming loose. The only thing I can figure is that when I tighten down the holding screw it just pushes that small wire off to the side and doesn't bind it in place. I thought about putting a ferrule on it to increase it's diameter but googling tells me that ferrules should not be place on solid conductors.
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Does anyone have any advice on how to approach this problem? Thanks.
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