bus bar?

[Muddydogs]

Has anyone used a bus bar to reduce the wire clutter at there battery's? I have to unhook my battery's for winter storage and was thinking it would be a lot less hassle to only deal with a couple wires going from the battery's to bus bar then all the wires connected to the battery's now.

[Muddydogs]

I am not sure what the extra wires go to, I need to trace some down but right now there are a few extra wires plus the solar wires for my portable set up. I was even thinking about just a pos and neg stud mounted behind the battery's on the trailer frame so all I would have would be a pos, neg and parallel cable on the battery's. I would also run my solar cables to the battery posts as well.

[westend]

I guess you have a scenario that would make it easier with bus bars but I was trying to conceptualize the situation and can't get past that the fastener count would remain the same--at least two fasteners for every bank (+,-) and the terminals between either parallel or series connections.

FWIW, I do have busses and they are real slick for connecting battery power to solar controller, inverter, and converter. I made my own:

[BFL13]

Yes lots of people here do that. I use the Trimetric shunt as my negative buss, but it can run out of room to stack terminals under that one bolt, so a secondary buss before that might be needed.

[Nunyadamn]

No, but this weekend I bought a battery disconnect switch. You could (as I will) just hook everything on the positive side to the switch and then just remove one cable going from the battery to the switch.

[GordonThree]

My bank is four group 31's in parallel - I thought about using buss bar or hammered flat 3/4" or 1" copper pipe, but decided against it. Seeing how things move around in my RV while it's bumbling down the road, I figured the #0000 cables were stiff enough and that a ridged connection between the batteries would be asking for trouble. they might not break anything I could see, but what if it placed stress on the post to plate connections inside the battery?

It sure would make it cleaner looking, but looks aren't everything - especially since I don't have to look in there that often, just every six months or so to check the torques on everything.

[BB_TX]

No reason you can't do that as long as the positive bus bar is covered/protected to prevent accidentally shorting it to ground.
I have not done it. My battery only has a single wire to each post and is distributed down stream after auto reset circuit breakers.