good disconnect to use for 12v battery
looking for a good disconnect that mounts on the post of the battery, theres some listed a few weeks back. but I didn,t need one then.
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- I am gonna "assume" you mean for the chassis battery. I installed one I got from Amazon about 3 years ago. Seems to do the trick for me and was a snap to install.
https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Disconnect-Switch-Vehicle-Negative/dp/B07N1FQDFH/ref=sr_1_9?crid=359FCSP3R8W4I&keywords=battery+disconnect+switch+top+post&qid=1553217726&s=gateway&sprefix=Battery+discon%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-9
I agree that a Blue Sea switch would be the "Gold Standard" but I couldn't see an easy way to mount it under the hood. The link below is my first attempt to include a pic in a post on this forum. Maybe it will work.
Good luck with your project. As others have mentioned, it "could" save you the price of a battery; the parasitic loads on my rig are pretty sizable.
Note: I edited this post. I had the wrong Amazon link posted for the switch. I had to have one that had the "knife" switch in a horizontal configuration.....not a vertical configuration. The link should be correct now.....hopefully. My bad, as they say. - There are parasitic loads.
The only way to eliminate them is to disconnect. If you don't, you may well come back to a battery that is so flat it can't be recharged. A bit of an ouch for the pocket book.
I chose to add solar panels, even though I did have an OEM disconnect switch.Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Just curious, why do you need to do that?
Newbie here so I have not experienced a situation why I have to do that and want to gain the wisdom should I encounter such need. - Just curious, why do you need to do that?
Newbie here so I have not experienced a situation why I have to do that and want to gain the wisdom should I encounter such need. - Blue Sea or Marinco style swithces, single or multi battery configurations.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00445KFZ2?aaxitk=kUgfNXyToWle3fFEx9pF1w&pd_rd_i=B00445KFZ2&pf_rd_p=e037c154-e093-48a4-b127-477e5e294e3f&hsa_cr_id=1206008650601&sb-ci-n=productDescription&sb-ci-v=Blue%20Sea%20Systems%20300%20Amp%20m-Series%20Battery%20Switches
