Cleaning up the mess of battery cables.
My trailer battery's are a mess of wires, the posts were full from the factory then I added wires for the solar, inverter and others. I was thinking about mounting two of these power posts https://www...
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BFL13 wrote:
To get a complete disconnect, have the switch going straight to the battery and all the pos wires on the outer side of the switch. (Except leave the breakaway switch wire right on the battery positive post, and don't fuse that wire either)
When I was setting up my pickup to tow a tandem flatbed with brakes, I was discussing breakaway circuits with an old friend - he stated he originally had a fuse in his break-away wire. He said one day he was working his way down a long gravel hill towing a tractor on a flatbed when the fuse blew. It was all he could to to manage the impending train wreak.
He suggested I put a self-resetting circuit breaker inline.
