Never crimp and solder. It's one or the other. In this situation I would have gone with solder and a nice amount of heatshrink. Splitting straight from the IN. Don't forget feeding the wire thru the hole first if you are not able to backmount the connectors. And before attempting the above, make the holes first. Keeps the possibility of damaging your just done wiring to a minimum. The wire nuts you used are ONLY rated for SOLID wire. Nothing else!!! So don't use them for this kind of projects. So unfortunately you will have to do it again. There are multiple ways to doing this all with pros and cons. What works best is to keep the amount of possible failures as low as possible, especially with mobile gear that gets thrown around a lot. All personal experience after 20-25 years or even longer of building stuff.
I second all @Richard1977 says. These kind of wire nuts are absolutely not designed for this kind of flex wire and usage. These connectors will come lose just by using them (rattling around being busted on a stage or during transport). Also, the wire core isn't the size and shape the wire nut is designed for (it's not round like a solid core is). One day someone will connect a device with a high power demand and you may end up with a fire due to a bad connection. Or the ground wire will come lose...
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One more bit of advice:
Getting a punch is not cheap but so worth it if you are planning to do more D-size holes in the future. Also trust me on that.
Never crimp and solder. It's one or the other.
In this situation I would have gone with solder and a nice amount of heatshrink. Splitting straight from the IN. Don't forget feeding the wire thru the hole first if you are not able to backmount the connectors.
And before attempting the above, make the holes first. Keeps the possibility of damaging your just done wiring to a minimum.
The wire nuts you used are ONLY rated for SOLID wire. Nothing else!!!
So don't use them for this kind of projects.
So unfortunately you will have to do it again.
There are multiple ways to doing this all with pros and cons. What works best is to keep the amount of possible failures as low as possible, especially with mobile gear that gets thrown around a lot.
All personal experience after 20-25 years or even longer of building stuff.
That box lost it’s UL rating as soon as you modified it. If anything ever happened with it you’d be liable.
Better a modified box that would pass inspection than those gang boxes with break-out holes I see all the time.
Yeah - not impressed frankly
I second all @Richard1977 says.
These kind of wire nuts are absolutely not designed for this kind of flex wire and usage. These connectors will come lose just by using them (rattling around being busted on a stage or during transport).
Also, the wire core isn't the size and shape the wire nut is designed for (it's not round like a solid core is).
One day someone will connect a device with a high power demand and you may end up with a fire due to a bad connection. Or the ground wire will come lose...