What to do: too many accessories to battery

BigClay

BigClay

Knower of useless ZJ things
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Winston-Salem
i know we have talked about this before, but I still don’t know what the best route is. I am electronically challenged so I want to keep it simple.

I have a lot of accessories wired directly to the battery. When I have to swap batteries it is a real pain. What is the best way to eleviate this? Military terminals? Separate fuse box? Or what?
 
If you end up needing to make new cables I've got a hydraulic crimper that works great.
 
I use a dual terminal battery. Starter cables to side terminals and everything else to the top post with one of those terminal blocks. Quick and easy. Looks neater too.
 
I do marine terminals with lugs on the wires.

That or if it's side post, use a bolt and nut, tighten bolt (thread nut on all the way) into battery with lugs on it, then tighten nut to cinch down the connection.
 
Having more than two or three wires attaching to the battery looks junky to me.
I always do a heavier gauge lead going to separate fuse boxes. Same thing with grounds. I always ground the entire vehicle that way I only need one lead to the battery.
 
Stuntman Autoworks said:
One of these could be good.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LLZF7D...&pd_rd_r=6b8182ac-0bd5-11e9-b34a-211282c114f8

Or these
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H93YXH...&pd_rd_r=81ca299f-0bd5-11e9-8d7f-87faa9603f34
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Everything but the winch......over fancy maybe. Protected. Definately. I dislike burnt stuff from wiring.
 
Same happened on my boat. Too many wires to battery. I put in distribution studs and then ran a 00 wire from battery to the stud. Has worked very well.
 
There are also two fused circuits behind the glove box that you can tie into. One is switched, one isn't. Little stuff like CBs and lights can tie in there.
 
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