Battery relocation help
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Battery relocation help
Ok I want to know if it is possible to relocate the battery to the rear but instead of grounding to chassis can I run both the new positive and negative to there corresponding original wires and solder them together? Also doing this will I need a I still need the breaker?
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Ok I want to know if it is possible to relocate the battery to the rear but instead of grounding to chassis can I run both the new positive and negative to there corresponding original wires and solder them together? Also doing this will I need a I still need the breaker?
That's a stupid amount of heavy gauge wire to run, have you priced that? (assuming when you say "rear" that you actually mean rear and not "storage bin")
For that reason, yes you would still need a breaker, a properly relocated battery has roughly 12-15' of wire connecting it with the stock system and the recommendation is to have a breaker no more than a foot from the battery. Some even use a second breaker in the engine bay. Should go w/o saying that adding 5' of wire and using no breaker(s) is....unwise.
EDIT: I would like to see your THAT soldering iron.
Soldering would not even be possible. You need proper crimp connections for that.
http://fc3spro.com/TECH/HOWTO/BATTRELO/battwiring.jpg
Note where the ground cable is recommended to be 18 inches or less. Running the positive to the stock wiring is acceptable, but many people would just rewire that, too.
http://fc3spro.com/TECH/HOWTO/BATTRELO/battwiring.jpg
Note where the ground cable is recommended to be 18 inches or less. Running the positive to the stock wiring is acceptable, but many people would just rewire that, too.
I followed the fc3spro method exactly, and it works great. It wasn't very difficult and having the breaker in the engine bay is very useful. Everytime I'm working on something, power on, power off, just like that. Here's another link to the fc3spro write-up.
http://www.fc3spro.com/TECH/HOWTO/BA.../battrelo.html
http://www.fc3spro.com/TECH/HOWTO/BA.../battrelo.html
Last edited by TIIFC3S; Feb 4, 2011 at 09:40 AM.
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