Wire fishing

DH told me he used fish tape to get under the carpet without taking it out, but he did yank the center console because of the way he wanted to run the wire into it.

he's at work so i can't ask him at the moment.

 

I hate to be the messenger of potential bad news but you might want to consider how much heat this inverter will be producing. Putting it in a closed space like the center console might be a real safety problem. It might catch fire depending on how much of a load you put on the inverter.

Just trying to keep you safe.

 

A fishtape is a semi-stiff wire that can be pushed through conduit (or whatever) then the wire is attached to the loop on the end and the fishtape is pulled back through bringing the wire with it. I assume the name comes from "fishing" the wire through walls and conduit. Click on Fishtape to see examples.

Steve T

 

You're obviously not an electrician. Fish tape is the flexible, but stiff thingy you use to fish wires through unaccessible spaces (usually behind walls and the like). It's rectangular in cross section (so it's real stiff in two dimensions but can bend in the third. Longer lengths come spooled in a plastic case so you can extend just the amount you need for the job. The real fun is when you have to come in from both sides and fish around with one fish tape for the other one, while both are somewhere inside whatever wall/floor/ceiling/whatever you're trying to string the cable through.

Of course, with the price of labor what it is, many jobs are done "the cable guy way" stapled to whatever wood trim can be found rather than snaking cables where they can't be seen. Used to be very common in networking jobs in the days before wireless.

Vince