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Started by captain ron, October 27, 2007, 12:48:01 PM

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captain ron

October 27, 2007, 12:48:01 PM
I'm hooking up my battery bank as we speak, On my inverter there are 2 sets of pos. cables and 2 sets of neg. cables.
They were hooked up 1 set at each end of the bank before to equalize the draw. (that was the theory from JJay when he initially hooked them up) Bruce Knee thinks maybe both neg's on one end and both pos. on the opposite end. Let's hear some advice from you experts. I want to try and squeeze all the life I can out of these batteries.

Gary LaBombard

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October 27, 2007, 02:21:35 PM
Jerry Liebler or Len Silva where are you guys.  This Captain needs advise ASAP.  Thanks.

Charlie, chuck, Ron, Captain Ron, be careful out there, put on safety glasses fooling around with something you are unsure of.  Good luck and see you soon.

Gary
Gary

captain ron

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October 27, 2007, 02:35:34 PM
Well I just remembered who hooked up the battery bank initially in my 4905 and it was Cliff, so I'm going to put it back the way he had it cause he is muuuuuuuuuch smarter than me.  Neg and pos at each end.

DrivingMissLazy

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October 27, 2007, 06:34:30 PM
From everything I have read, JJ was correct.
Richard
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a good Reisling in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming:  WOO HOO, what a ride

edroelle

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October 28, 2007, 06:50:35 AM
I went through this same dilemma.  If you have each positive cable going to opposite ends of the battery bank, and negative cables going to each end, you  will not be charging the batteries equally.

This may seem odd,  but you want BOTH positives connected together on the positive post at one end of the battery bank.  Connect BOTH negatives together on the negative post, at the other end of the battery bank.

Ed Roelle
Flint, MI

captain ron

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October 28, 2007, 08:02:05 AM
You have any thing to back that up with? just seems weird to me  ???

captain ron

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October 28, 2007, 10:05:11 AM
Ed, My inverter is just a bare bones inverter no charger. Aims 5000 watt. Do you think that still applies to my hook up? I'm talking inverter only. If I mount my smart charger permanently I will go from one corner of the bank to the other with pos and neg.

Jerry Liebler

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October 28, 2007, 10:43:24 AM
Captain Ron,
    The goal is that each battery has the same length of wire, of each gauge, between it and the load.  One way of achieving this is by connecting the load across the diagonal of a line of batteries oriented with + on the same side.  If you do this you could connect the charger across either the same or the other diagonal.  Since you have 2 wires from the inverter to the battery bank for each + and - , if they are the same length you could connect 1 on each diagonal end or both at the same terminal with equal results.  But they both would have to be the same length.
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Jerry 4107 1120
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