Connecting Wires to Marine Battery

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Re: Connecting Wires to Marine Battery

Change your connectors so they fit the battery.
 
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Re: Connecting Wires to Marine Battery

You have a couple of options, you can either use a fuse block and connect the fuse blocks to the battery with one wire or use connectors and connect all the wires directly to the battery. They definitely make crimp on connectors that will fit on the battery post and you can just tighten them down with the wing nuts. If you really feel the need you could put lock nuts on the posts to keep the connectors on there. It is worth a mention you definitely want to put some inline fuse holders on if you go directly to the battery, or just use a fuse block.:) Hope this helps.............
 
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Re: Connecting Wires to Marine Battery

Another thing to keep in mind, connecting the trolling motor and the fish finder to the same battery, will usually cause interference on the fish finder when trolling motor is in use.
 
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Re: Connecting Wires to Marine Battery

on my battery they have a reducing device on it to hook up multiple wires smaller than the wing nut bolts are. ill see if i can get a pic well its too late now its dark, maybe tomorrow if you havent found something else by then. good luck
 
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