I purchased two Costco 6V Golf cart batteries to replace a single 12v house battery. I have a couple of questions for you folks:
1. What's the best way to secure the batteries in the battery tray? The current battery is tied down with a nylon strap, is there a better alternative?
2. As far as wiring is concerned, can I use the existing cables? My plan is to hook the positive cable to the positive terminal of battery #1, and hook the negative cable to the negative terminal of batery #2. So I will need to purchase a length of cable to connect the negative trminal of battery #1 to the positive terminal of battery #2. Is this correct?
My batteries just seat in the bay. I have only about 3" clearance, so they would not go far, but I never noticed them moved. Actually we have household chair in our coach, that stands unsecured under office desk and it never went out of this location neither.
For the connector you can use a piece of copper plumbing strap. That will make solid connector, interlocking both batteries and making them less prone to movement. Should be much cheaper, than heavy cables with made ends.
Piece of 1/2" copper pipe hammered flat might be even cheaper.
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In addition to the nylon straps, if the shelf the batteries are on leave room for them to move, use plastic-- like old cutting boards (lasts longer in battery acid) or wood (probably replace annually) to block them in.
Wiring:
House positive cable to positive battery #1.
Negative battery #1 to positive battery #2.
Negative battery #2 to house ground/negative.
Kajtek1 wrote: My batteries just seat in the bay. I have only about 3" clearance, so they would not go far, but I never noticed them moved. Actually we have household chair in our coach, that stands unsecured under office desk and it never went out of this location neither.
For the connector you can use a piece of copper plumbing strap. That will make solid connector, interlocking both batteries and making them less prone to movement. Should be much cheaper, than heavy cables with made ends.
Piece of 1/2" copper pipe hammered flat might be even cheaper.
Using a solid connector is just asking for trouble, vibration alone will tear the post apart from the battery case, and for a trouble free way to stop a battery from moving, we have been using chip board plywood and the battery will never move, the 8 batteries I have are not strapped down and no movement in 5 yrs. Just my thoughts.
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