Post pictures of your battery terminals. The good, bad and ugly

[lucus30]

As per the title post some pictures of your battery terminals.
No doubt we shall see some birds nests in the form of wiring looms

I'll start

Starter Battery is a mess
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However I do have the cleanest wiring to my Aux battery known to man
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[threedogs]

At least cable tie them together lol lol
good thing I cant do pics atm

[lucus30]

They were cabled tied together up until yesterday. I removed my dual battery wiring from that mess, like i said tomorrow is the rewire day

[BigRAWesty]

So I'm so sick of stupid forum runner crashing while up loading multiple pics I'm doing one a post lol.

Anyway. Main.
This is 10x better than what it was.
I still have the 6 fuse common positive block to go in and take away those last few stragglers.


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And don't worry, that loose lug is for the dual battery but solenoid had shat itself.

[BigRAWesty]

Second is the second battery.
Was a birds nest but in progress of running a single main to the rear.
You can just see a 50A circuit breaker under the bonnet lip, and that 10mm cable runs to the rear.


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[dave97]

Mine is terrible the previous owner hard wired everything and obviously knows nothing about electrics have intermittent use of lights and stereo because he had used wrong terminals, conduit just dodgey, can't wait till this house move is over i get the garage set up and i can overhaul it all.

Ps the loose lug is his idea of a kill switch for the whinch, hold it onto the terminal while whinching and if something goes wrong disconnect it.....

[mudski]

Heres my two lovely beauties!
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=56383&stc=1http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=56384&stc=1

[MEGOMONSTER]

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Main Battery


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Aux battery.

[lucus30]

Well my my main plan for today didn't work but at least I tidied up the battery terminals a little

[BigRAWesty]

Got the rear panel sorted now.
And still plenty of room for add ons


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[BigRAWesty]

And behind said panel.
Fuse bank off to the side


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[mudski]

Well my my main plan for today didn't work but at least I tidied up the battery terminals a little

Where did you get those terminals from Lucas? They are exactly what I'm looking for.

[lucus30]

Where did you get those terminals from Lucas? They are exactly what I'm looking for.

EBay mate. They are projecta terminals
http://m.ebay.com.au/itm/151430059726

I bought them in a set for about 30 bucks but can't find the seller now

They have 3 clamp connections also. One I'm using for my starter but the other two are pretty small maybe 6 gauge would be the biggest

[mudski]

Thanks Lucas. Just look in your purchase history. You will find the seller there.

[lucus30]

Thanks Lucas. Just look in your purchase history. You will find the seller there.

Yeah I did but he doesn't have them listed any more

[BigRAWesty]

Any repco, Autobarn etc will have them.
I got mine from parts stop as they deal in the truck industry to so mine are heavy duty.

[Hodge]

Here is mine I'll be attacking today with new ones and a new main battery.
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71754&stc=1http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71753&stc=1

[GQtdauto]

That looks neat compared to mine Hodge .

[Hodge]

That looks neat compared to mine Hodge .
I hate it mate. The positive especially. It's a mess and started corroding underneath. I'm redoing the large ground strap too.

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[mudski]

I hate it mate. The positive especially. It's a mess and started corroding underneath. I'm redoing the large ground strap too.

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Pour boiling water over the terminal to clean off the corrosion and the get some Corrode Cure or similar and soak that puppy in it until theres no bare section of the terminal left. Corrosion simply starts from battery vapours weeping out from the battery casing and where the terminal comes though. So even those round terminal pads will help. But if the corrosion has gone down the cable itself. Time to change them.

[Hodge]

I'll have a look closely now when rip it all up.
Just got some goodies. Battery , terminals, some lugs, cables etc... http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2017/05/4.jpg

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[Hodge]

New battery, new terminals, new earth cables. Lucky I attacked this job as a few things were corroded big time. The tray under the battery had surface rust which I cleaned up and flooded with Lanolin. Even found some tools under there. Both - and + terminals were in not a very good condition so, I'm glad I replaced those.
If things were this bad up the battery end, I hate to think what they're like at the starter motor and alternator end... Those are next on my list.

Things you find under your battery ...
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71757&stc=1

Earth strap that went from battery to body to motor was corroded to the shit. The copper was all green and brittle.
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71758&stc=1

New earth strap lugged and heatshrunk.
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71759&stc=1

End result.
These terminals work really well. But, are not very good if you have a few accessories added to it as it ends up a un-tidy looking job. Even though I'm glad I fixed a lot of the corroded cabling etc, the end cabling/terminal job ended up messier than I began with.
I'm thinking of adding a distributor box next to the battery for some of the accessories.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71760&stc=1

[PeeBee]

I have been working on mine to add a few more accessories.71763

[Cuppa]

Reckon mine fit the 'ugly but do the job' category.

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[MudRunnerTD]

PeeBee you got this mate! Bring it!! These guys ain't seen nuffin!

[GQtdauto]

I have been working on mine to add a few more accessories.71763

So I'm not alone with my style of wiring !

[MB]

I have been working on mine to add a few more accessories.<img src="http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71763"/> Love it mate, well done;-)

[firm351]

Scored myself 12 metres of 70mm2 battery cable for nothing today so now im gunna finally pull out the cole hersee manual battery isolater and put a vsr in with decent cables and tidy up my poxy wiring in the engine bay. Might make some jumper cables aswell with the left over 70mm2.

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[MudRunnerTD]

Scored myself 12 metres of 70mm2 battery cable for nothing today so now im gunna finally pull out the cole hersee manual battery isolater and put a vsr in with decent cables and tidy up my poxy wiring in the engine bay. Might make some jumper cables aswell with the left over 70mm2.

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Rewire the winch for a start. If you don't have one then buy a proper crimping tool and also proper cable shears.

[Hodge]

Now I've seen some mighty and interesting busbars in my industry, but this one takes the cake ol' Phil. lol

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71766&stc=1

[firm351]

Rewire the winch for a start. If you don't have one then buy a proper crimping tool and also proper cable shears.
No winch mate but i might have to get one now so the cable doesn't go to waste, see if the mrs buys that one. Got all the crimping and cutting gear at work so ill just borrow that for now.

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[Mc4by]

As a newbie to the 4wd fraternity I am wondering what it is that you all have attached to your batteries!!!!!
So many connections.
Please tell me what you are running in your rigs.

[PeeBee]

Now I've seen some mighty and interesting busbars in my industry, but this one takes the cake ol' Phil. lol

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=71766&stc=1

I am an innovator!

[Hodge]

As a newbie to the 4wd fraternity I am wondering what it is that you all have attached to your batteries!!!!!
So many connections.
Please tell me what you are running in your rigs.
Not much in my rig.
Led bar, compressor, winch and the redarc bcdc are hanging off my main battery.
Second battery has the fridge, rear light , UHF unit and the main stereo.

Just waiting for PeeBee s response to this :)

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[PeeBee]

Mc4by, my photo is a bit of a piss take!

Re accessories I am a little over the top I guess.

I run aux ignition fuse boxes and also 3 aux accessory fuse boxes to try and keep the wiring neat and reduce the firewall penetrations to a minimum, as this is where you can run into trouble with chaffing and shorting wires, unless you use the correct glands to feed the wires thru.

Regards devices, Communications( 27mhz, HF, uhf, vhf amateur, vhf marine, Satellite phone, GSM phone), 240VInverter for power tools, coffee machine, power off for fridge, aux. lights for camping and driving, winch supply, various instruments like volt meters, EGT, water and oil temp. Its pretty busy under the bonnet and dash!

It important to remember to fuse all cables and ensure the fuses are the correct rating - they are there to protect the device, wiring and eliminate fires.

[BigRAWesty]

This is my van..
Car is a similar setup (less solar controller and is hidden under draws..)http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2017/05/13.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2017/05/14.jpg

[Zoc]

Well my my main plan for today didn't work but at least I tidied up the battery terminals a little

Where did you get the wire that you've got coming off the right of the positive terminal, looks braided?

[Tallion_o7]

here is what I have recently inherited

Main Battery Carrier
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secondary Battery Carrier
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and there are two Solenoids which I have yet to see what they are actually connected too

Front solenoid
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Rear Solenoid
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[Brissieboy]

An old klaxon horn - don't see (or hear) them much these days although modern copies are readily available. They were popular way back when . . . I used to have one on my FL Holden.

[Plasnart]

An old klaxon horn - don't see (or hear) them much these days although modern copies are readily available. They were popular way back when . . . I used to have one on my FL Holden.

Aroooga! Yes I was going to say the same thing.

Pull it out, follow the wires and pull them all out. Are the solenoids connected to the klaxon wiring?

Get rid of all that shit and put in a quality La Cucaracha!

[PeeBee]

I have a genuine VicPol air-raid screamer siren with electronic control box, identical to the units you might remember on the HG Holden Police car used in Matlock Police - must dig it out one day and rebirth it - only trouble is once the siren winds up it takes a good 2 minutes to wind back down - extremely load.