battery conections.

[thirteen]

Would anyone mind recomending battery clamps with crimp on connections. I'm getting some batteries next week (4 lead acid) 24 v system. I'm going to try and stop any corrosion and there are some out there that handle it better than others. Just looking for some. 13

[phil b]

Look on the NAWS site.
http://www.solar-electric.com/nsearch.html?catalog=wind-sun&x=0&y=0&query=lug

I use crimp on lugs with dielectric grease and a hydraulic crimper. Never had a problem.

[ghurd]

"battery clamps with crimp on connections"?
You mean like jumper cable-ish clamps?
Try American made.  The brand name escapes me.

Locally, they sometimes use something we call parrot clamps.  Jumper cable-ish but smaller.  They have screws for wire connectons, and a spring about 10X stronger than it needs to be.

"stop any corrosion".
Those Red & Green felt washers do wonders.
G-

[Frank S]

Napa sells some good ones but there are better ones out there
 
Now here is a use for gold that's worth far more than hanging it around someone's neck
http://www.wiringproducts.com/contents/en-us/d525_specialty_audio_battery_terminals.html

I've never heard of 1/2" bolts being used on battery terminals They are probably 5/16" that use a 1/2" wrench
 A 1/2" bolt would use a 3/4" wrench this tells me that who ever wrote up the add doesn't know beans from honey about mechanics
http://www.wiringproducts.com/contents/en-us/d252_copper_battery_terminals.html
Plated copper or brass terminals are always better than lead
 I usually solder then crimp but that is how I am used to doing things.
 Here are some pics of good quality crimpers lugs & applications

[Frank S]

What about these with built in volt meter
 Comes whit its own battery power source

[SparWeb]

What the heck is that Frank?
Where does it get its ground reference?
What goes into the various sockets and how do they get crimped?

Thirteen, I get by just fine with stuff from NAPA.
Tip for saving a buck:  Instead of paying more for cables with a red jacket (to colour-code positive cables), instead just put red heat-shrink around the ends of positive cables and black heat-shrink on the negs.

[Frank S]

Sparweb from what I saw it looked to use set screw locks if that were the case then the cables would require pin lugs on the ends. the ground reference would naturally have to come from the mated negative terminal I would suspect .

[Mary B]

I made my own cables, crimped and then soldered.

[dbcollen]

I always heat my crimped ends with a torch then dip in vaseline, vaseline soaks between the strands and I have no corosion on my battery cables after 5 years

[XeonPony]

me I flux, crimp, then solder!, to crimp I use a flaring block as an anvil and a robertson #2 head as a punch and hammer it in, good as a hydraulic crimper, more work but very cheap and very effective, I fill in the depression with solder too.