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SAFASTRO
Explorer
Apr 25, 2015

2003 Southwind Chassis Battery Stolen, Help Hooking Back Up

So my mom had her battery stolen this winter in her Southwind. Now I have the wonderful task of helping her getting the chassis battery hooked up properly again. They took the positive cable as well, and now am left wondering how to hook up the remaining wires that are left over. Does anyone have a pic of their battery under the front access compartment and show the leads going to the Battery Control Center? Terminal labelled as "P13" on the BCC currently has nothing hooked up to it. I also have 3 heavy gauge wires that I'm not sure where they go, and 2 smaller gauge wires. Do I hook them up to the positive? Negative? Directly to the BCC or directly to the battery?

Any help would be fantastic!!

Steve
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  • tropical36's avatar
    tropical36
    Explorer II
    Apr 25, 2015
    SAFASTRO wrote:
    So my mom had her battery stolen this winter in her Southwind. Now I have the wonderful task of helping her getting the chassis battery hooked up properly again. They took the positive cable as well, and now am left wondering how to hook up the remaining wires that are left over. Does anyone have a pic of their battery under the front access compartment and show the leads going to the Battery Control Center? Terminal labelled as "P13" on the BCC currently has nothing hooked up to it. I also have 3 heavy gauge wires that I'm not sure where they go, and 2 smaller gauge wires. Do I hook them up to the positive? Negative? Directly to the BCC or directly to the battery?

    Any help would be fantastic!!

    Steve

    While you're trying to figure it out, use an ohmmeter to read each lead and any that you find that might have continuity to ground, don't hook it up to the +pos side.
    This can be misleading and a chore at times with some circuits having such a low resistance that it will read 0 anyway.
  • LVJ58's avatar
    LVJ58
    Explorer
    Apr 25, 2015
    With chassis batteries the negative lead from the negative battery erminal should be connected to the chassis frame.

    The positive cable should be connected to the BCC. Any additional red wires should be connected to the Positive battery terminal and any black or white wires connect to the negative battery terminal.

    Hope this helps and hopefully other members can provide additional details.

    Best of luck and let us know how you make out....

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