I am working on plans to upgrade my current system. This will involve multiple charging systems (wind and solar) all linking to one industrial forklift battery. One issue I want to avoid is connection multiple charge controllers to the battery. It's just a lot of wires and when maintenance needs done there is a lot of hooking and unhooking.
My idea is to connect the charge controllers to large pieces of copper plate, then connect each positive and negative plate to the battery. This allows room for expansion of the system by adding to each plate and leaves me connecting two charging wires and two output wires only.
I'm sure a setup like this has been done by others and I'm in need of details on wire thickness, plate thickness and positioning, safety concerns, etc. I'm sre there is a name for such an arrangement, but I simply don't know what it is called and can't search it out. Googling 'electrical doohickey' wasn't very helpful.
Mark