Vic Med. Thank You for a video that finally shows me how to wire batteries for a 12V set up. I bought a 1979 Kenworth W900 in great shape but somebody had taken the batteries and cables, so I didn't have a clue about how to wire it in. Your video showed me how to do it and it is working great! Thank You again for teaching me how!
Do not follow the procedures in this video. If you value your eyesight, use eye protection. Lead-acid batteries can explode and cause injury from acid and from high-velocity plastic shards. Do not breathe the dust, which may contain poisonous lead compounds. (Technically you should use long, insulating gloves, full-face shield, and a respirator.) Injury and other mishaps come from energy. To avoid an energized system, leave the neg (black) insulator caps in place until the very end. If both terminals of any one battery are exposed, then you should consider it to be an energized system, which carries the risk of a mishap. Leaving the neg insulator caps in place will minimize the risk of the system energizing. There is less injury risk while all neg contacts are covered. There is low risk that the system will be energized until after you connect the neg cable, therefore complete as many tasks possible before connecting the neg cable. There is a good reason why the truck's designers placed the pos terminals farther away from the operator. This design allows you to complete the task of securing the pos terminals, prior to energizing the system. You don't want to be reaching over neg terminals, and the grounded anchor bar, to work on the pos terminals, which are situated next to the chassis, while the system is energized. If you follow the incorrect procedures in this video, and then touch a wrench (or part of you) to the chassis, the anchor bar, or the neg terminals or cables, then there is potential for a mishap. Shorting the pos terminal to the chassis will at best give you a fireworks show and leave you with a pitted tool. Keep in mind, the neg cable is not associated with the kill switch. The kill switch only affects the pos terminals, protecting the vehicle's other components from damage from current spikes while you're working on the battery. The neg cable is grounded directly to the chassis. If you follow incorrect procedures and connect the neg cable first, you create a potential difference between the chassis and the pos terminals. Fireworks show. Here's how you install batteries: First, clean all contact points on the cables, prior to placing the batteries. Next, place the batteries in position, install anchor bar, tighten firmly, but leave it just loose enough for any fine adjustment required to fit the cables. Then, fit the pos cable and finish securing all nuts on the pos terminals. Complete all the final work on the pos terminals before removing the insulator caps on the neg terminals. Finally, remove the neg insulator caps and fit the neg cable. Tighten neg nuts and tighten anchor.
Thanks. Don't listen to those guys, they just want things done the fast way, time is money. Little do they know, bad health will cost them more money, in the end.
Hey buddy please is that a 12 voltage system.. Positive to Positive to the switch. Then negative all negative connection to ground. 12 volt system. Is that correct how you do it..
Vic Med. Thank You for a video that finally shows me how to wire batteries for a 12V set up. I bought a 1979 Kenworth W900 in great shape but somebody had taken the batteries and cables, so I didn't have a clue about how to wire it in. Your video showed me how to do it and it is working great! Thank You again for teaching me how!
I thought when replacing your batteries, you uninstall the negative first and when reinstalling, you install the positive first before the negative?
Correct. I noticed That too.
10/10
Much better reception.
...I mean connection.
2:07 reception connection tomato tomatoes lol
Can I add one more battery. And what size cable do you use.
Do not follow the procedures in this video.
If you value your eyesight, use eye protection. Lead-acid batteries can explode and cause injury from acid and from high-velocity plastic shards. Do not breathe the dust, which may contain poisonous lead compounds. (Technically you should use long, insulating gloves, full-face shield, and a respirator.)
Injury and other mishaps come from energy.
To avoid an energized system, leave the neg (black) insulator caps in place until the very end. If both terminals of any one battery are exposed, then you should consider it to be an energized system, which carries the risk of a mishap.
Leaving the neg insulator caps in place will minimize the risk of the system energizing. There is less injury risk while all neg contacts are covered. There is low risk that the system will be energized until after you connect the neg cable, therefore complete as many tasks possible before connecting the neg cable.
There is a good reason why the truck's designers placed the pos terminals farther away from the operator. This design allows you to complete the task of securing the pos terminals, prior to energizing the system. You don't want to be reaching over neg terminals, and the grounded anchor bar, to work on the pos terminals, which are situated next to the chassis, while the system is energized.
If you follow the incorrect procedures in this video, and then touch a wrench (or part of you) to the chassis, the anchor bar, or the neg terminals or cables, then there is potential for a mishap. Shorting the pos terminal to the chassis will at best give you a fireworks show and leave you with a pitted tool.
Keep in mind, the neg cable is not associated with the kill switch. The kill switch only affects the pos terminals, protecting the vehicle's other components from damage from current spikes while you're working on the battery. The neg cable is grounded directly to the chassis. If you follow incorrect procedures and connect the neg cable first, you create a potential difference between the chassis and the pos terminals. Fireworks show.
Here's how you install batteries:
First, clean all contact points on the cables, prior to placing the batteries.
Next, place the batteries in position, install anchor bar, tighten firmly, but leave it just loose enough for any fine adjustment required to fit the cables.
Then, fit the pos cable and finish securing all nuts on the pos terminals. Complete all the final work on the pos terminals before removing the insulator caps on the neg terminals.
Finally, remove the neg insulator caps and fit the neg cable. Tighten neg nuts and tighten anchor.
Stfu lol
Are you osha ?
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Thanks. Don't listen to those guys, they just want things done the fast way, time is money. Little do they know, bad health will cost them more money, in the end.
Hey buddy please is that a 12 voltage system..
Positive to Positive to the switch.
Then negative all negative connection to ground.
12 volt system. Is that correct how you do it..
It's more safety start connecting the positive side.
good stuff hometown.
Thx.
Vic, where did you get the fuses that go under the cab by the drivers door and the kill switch?
The Reyes auto zone.
925 cranking amps per battery?
If so, that’s 3,700 cranking amps.
Some people run 1150 cca batteries on there trucks that 4600 cca lol
HunterLong1266 It just seems like way more than you would need.
Will you hurt anything if u run a truck with extra cca that you don’t need ???
Miguel Wellington I don’t think so, it just gives a buffer. Say if it won’t start and you crank it for a long time.
My batteries on my '10 Cascadia are dead after first below zero day in Wisconsin, during Christmas home time.
thats not good,thanks for tunning in
Apu is what you need
Are those 24volt batteries?
Don’t have a on off switch on mine
How often batteries last on freightliner?
depending on the brand and if you leave stuff plugged it and truck is off,these batteries lasted me 3 years and some change
What are the price
Are you from east side riva vic?
no im not,thanks for tunning in
Dude! Why do your wrist bones stick out like that? Are you a deformed Mexican? 🌮 😂
yes