Balanced Battery Wiring
The general rule is that when wiring two 12V battery banks in parallel, you take the pos lead off one bank and the neg off the other. But what if the battery interconnect cabling is much heavier (...
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horton333 wrote:Or is there some connection resistance besides the cables?
With short runs of #1 wire your connection to the battery is almost for sure going to be a significant fraction of the wire resistance, and if you just wing-nutted it on it could be more.....
Not wing nuts. Need a 1/2" box wrench to tighten the nuts and am using anti-corrosion conductive paste.
Afraid this is going to be a "hoser" (Canadian Redneck) job anyway. The bank that may be carrying more load by miss-wiring it this way will be new US2200 GC2s, while the other bank is a pair of 3 year old US2000 GC2s.
Put them all together in the new tongue mounted battery box during one of our lovely spring snowfalls. In my hurry, got one of the bats turned around. Boy, the sparks did fly on that one!
