Need to tidy up my battery connections

yeh great, something along the lines of what I was thinking, could be OK for the Aux Battery, but the + terminal on the main battery has a strange arrangment that is all part of the + terminal connector, that incorperates a fuse block with (JB-alt-main-JBs) fuses ?

Spot on JD,
Just what I was after.
Regards

Hi there Michael,looks bloody brilliant, great set up looks like a lot of effort and time have gone into it. Bet your life on it a auto sparky wouldn't even do it like that. Makes mine look like a fire waiting to happen,well at least I'v got in line fuses to all mine but all runs from the main battery. Crap every where, you have made me feel like tyding mine up a bit now.puts me to shame. Great result. Take Care Regards Steve M

Thanks Michael,

You have also brought me great inspiration, and I would say a very hard act to follow.
One question though would you let me know the cable sizes you used, being the main feeder cable from the battery and then your subsiquent down stream cable sizes.
Once again, Really great work, what do you do for a living ?

Nuboy

Hi Michael. Through your link, I also found your home theatre. Bl@@dy amazing!!
So, are you the Michael Carey I worked with in Sydney for several years? If so, you should recognise who I am from my name here.

Norm C

Hi guys and thanks for the nice comments. Last follow-up first, nope, I've never worked in Sydney. I'm from country SA.
The cable I run between my battery, fuse and isolater is unmarked and it's been a while since I bought it, BUT, it fits 10mm crimp lugs very snugly so I would imagine it's 10mm cable! The cable between the Redarc solenoid and the back distribution box is 32mm cable. I have had this for ages and IIRC it was VERY expensive. Eventually, I plan to put my second battery in the tray and connect to the back distribution box behind the back seat. At the moment, I have a 50 Ah SLA deep cycle battery that can be disconnected, but lives on the floor behind the passenger seat.
I work in marine electronics where you can find REAL BIG DC systems. I'm more involved with the electronic side rather that the electrical but I have intimate knowledge of DC systems (which helps a lot!)
It is certainly a long term project, lots of my time has gone into this. I'm not bagging any auto electrician, I'm sure that given the time and money, results like this are possible, but not many people would like to pay for time and materials to do something like this. I'm fortunate that I have the knowledge to pull something like this off, but given some thought, it's not hard to do, it's very just time consuming!!

By the way Michael,
With regard to your compressor, I found with mine that with the vib whilst in operation can cause cracks in the material bolted to. Suggest you mount the unit via some insulation bushing. I used some small bushes I had laying around which were radiator support bushes from a RX7 Mazda radiator, very small with studs both ends, did the job a treat.
Regards Terry