Re doing the Battery Box

cajun666

Re: Re doing the Battery Box

icarus wrote: »

The trick with the hammer crimper is to put it on a hard (massive) surface, anvil is nice, and hit it HARD with a heavy hammer. I use a ~3# hand sledge and it works great!

Harbor Freight or Northern sells a pretty inexpensive hydraulic crimper, but I suspect the quality is not real good.

Tony

Harbor Freight hydraulic crimper
work great

the size of dies r off do

but i love the one i got

System2

Re: Re doing the Battery Box

icarus wrote: »

The trick with the hammer crimper is to put it on a hard (massive) surface, anvil is nice, and hit it HARD with a heavy hammer. I use a ~3# hand sledge and it works great!

Harbor Freight or Northern sells a pretty inexpensive hydraulic crimper, but I suspect the quality is not real good.

Tony

The hammer crimper is just a small, portable crimping. It does a good job when you cant carry a large crimping tool. It did not know that was from NOCO. I have been using NOCO Battery Boxes (large battery boxes) for housing my batteries. It savings alot of time from making my own. They have dual L16 battery box that works well. You can get the dimensions from www.noco-usa.com

icarus

Re: Re doing the Battery Box

If you are going to put all the positives together on one bus bar, and all the negs together, you are going to have a 16 cell 6 volt battery!

If you are going to 48 vdc you are going to need to string 8 L-16s together in series (+to -to+ to - etc) and then connect that to a second identical string, making 2 48 vdc series/ parallel batteries.

Tony

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Re: Re doing the Battery Box

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