T&T: Battery Post Needed

[Peter Bennett]

Friday, January 19, 2007, 10:37:06 PM, GARY wrote:

GR> All these posts about batteries reminds me that I have a question about
GR> battery posts: In 1997 I installed eight six-volt Interstate deep cycle
GR> batteries. One reason I chose this brand is because the battery dimensions fit
GR> my battery boxes. I replaced these batteries in 2005 with what were supposed
GR> to be identical batteries but Interstate had made one design change. The first
GR> set had both an automotive type post and a smaller threaded post at each
GR> terminal. This allowed the use of an adapter that fits around the automotive
GR> post and has a vertical stud that will hold ring type battery fittings. The
GR> newer ones have only the threaded post. One of my battery posts has a good
GR> number of wires leading from it  e.g. Engine starter motor, inverter and Espar
GR> none of which go through the electric panel, wire to the rotary switch at the
GR> electric panel, echo charge for the starting batteries, wire for the Link
GR> 2000.
GR> By the time all these terminal rings are stacked up I can barely get a lock
GR> washer and nut on. I tried a nut with the nylon to hold it on but the threads
GR> don't reach the nylon.
GR> A poster on this site gave the name of Del City as an electrical parts source
GR> but I can't find what I need there. Does anyone know of a source for an "L"
GR> shaped device that has a ring on the horizontal part that would go on the
GR> existing stud and a vertical threaded stud that I could put some of the wires
GR> on?

Look for a Blue Seas "Power Post" - this is a fairly long threaded
post in an insulating base - you can mount the power post near the
battery terminal, and run all your wires to it, and only a single wire
from it to the battery terminal.

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Peter Bennett, VE7CEI    Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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