Quick Release Battery Clamps
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Quick Release Battery Clamps
Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?
73 Westy
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Re: Quick Release Battery Clamps
A handly little item, get quality. Just do the negative.iwantmybustorun wrote:Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?
Colin
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Re: Quick Release Battery Clamps
Amskeptic wrote:A handly little item, get quality. Just do the negative.iwantmybustorun wrote:Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?
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
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Re: Quick Release Battery Clamps
What kind did you go with?Lanval wrote:Amskeptic wrote:A handly little item, get quality. Just do the negative.iwantmybustorun wrote:Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?
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
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
73 Westy
1700
Weber single progressive
[Crane ignition system out]
SVDA and points
1700
Weber single progressive
[Crane ignition system out]
SVDA and points
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Re: Quick Release Battery Clamps
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#iwantmybustorun wrote:What kind did you go with?Lanval wrote:Amskeptic wrote:A handly little item, get quality. Just do the negative.iwantmybustorun wrote:Anyone use these? Sometimes I've seen them called disconnect switches or battery isolators(?). Any opinions?
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
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
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
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Re: Quick Release Battery Clamps
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.
Quality for me is the one I got from AAP seven years ago and had no trouble with it.