Quick Release Battery Clamps

[iwantmybustorun]

Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?

[Amskeptic]

Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?

A handly little item, get quality. Just do the negative.
Colin

[Lanval]

Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?

A handly little item, get quality. Just do the negative.
Colin

Very handy indeed ~ I had these on my Volvo 240 and they were awesome. As Colin says, only the neg. I did the positive, but you only use it when changing batteries. The neg comes off every time you do something.

Mike

[iwantmybustorun]

Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?

A handly little item, get quality. Just do the negative.
Colin

Very handy indeed ~ I had these on my Volvo 240 and they were awesome. As Colin says, only the neg. I did the positive, but you only use it when changing batteries. The neg comes off every time you do something.

Mike

What kind did you go with?
Something like one of these?

http://www.ozautoelectrics.com/products ... of-2).html
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... D971%2D005
http://www.jcwhitney.com/battery-discon ... ilterid=j1

[Lanval]

Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?

A handly little item, get quality. Just do the negative.
Colin

Very handy indeed ~ I had these on my Volvo 240 and they were awesome. As Colin says, only the neg. I did the positive, but you only use it when changing batteries. The neg comes off every time you do something.

Mike

What kind did you go with?
Something like one of these?

http://www.ozautoelectrics.com/products ... of-2).html
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... D971%2D005
http://www.jcwhitney.com/battery-discon ... ilterid=j1

Pictures of the type I used are surprisingly hard to find. Here's a different shaped one, but it works the same way ~ it uses a lever-type quick release.http://www.jcwhitney.com/battery-discon ... 2420.jcwx#

The type I had can be found in any FLAPS I think. They're in with the battery terminals, and will have a lever quick release attached to a typical round terminal end. You stick the wires in one side, adjust the lever, and then slide the round terminal section down over the post, and then close the lever.

I think the ones I had were pretty cheap, but I never had a problem with them. Perhaps Colin can explain what he hmeans by "quality"... Examples, Oh my Captain?

Mike

[Hippie]

I do. Took a tip from Jay Leno who stores many cars and has them on all his machines to help prevent a spontaneous fire from old wiring at 3 o'clock in the morning. I disconnect mine when it's going to be parked for any length of time. I do not have full coverage insurance on the bus, and do not entirely trust old, hidden wiring.
Quality for me is the one I got from AAP seven years ago and had no trouble with it.