Too many wires to the battery.....

[Diesel]

Any tech heads here have a solution for cleaning up the spaghetti wiring going to the battery terminals?


You know what I mean... when you have 5 or six wires coming off the positive or earth side of the battery terminal.


Pics or links pls if possible.


It would be nice to have a single connector around the bolt that can branch off to multiple devices.


Cheers, Diesel

[Lionel]

Diesel,
The cheapest way is to bolt a small length of conductive metal strip to the positive terminal. At the other end of the strip drill a hole and pass a bolt through, long enough to terminate the number of positive wires you intend to connect. Don't forget this metal strip and bolt/nut are live at all times.

In the pic, which you wanted, I have spread out the positive wires from their insulating "tubes" so you can see how they connect (count the yellow connectors). You'll notice each of the positive wires has an inline fuse close to the battery. It also helps to label the red wires at each end.

Many people have commented on my 12v wiring ability, such as "I don't believe what I'm seeing", "Can I photograph that?" and "Do you carry a fire extinguisher?"

 

[Brock]

What you need is a fuse block. You then have one extra wire to the battery (a heavy duty one) that goes to a fused distribution block. all the feeds for the Farkles then come from that. They can even have switched power as well.

Something like this. http://www.easternbeaver.com/Main/Wiring_Kits/Fuseboxes/PC-8/pc-8.html

I have made something like this.  http://www.easternbeaver.com/Main/Wiring_Kits/Fuseboxes/3_Circuit/3_circuit.html

[Wombattle]

Heartily agree with the Eastern Beaver PC-8 suggestion.  This also has the side benefit of making troubleshooting easy.  Bought one not long back for MYST and it will be an integral part of the farkling.  I did have to take the unit out of the box and show my missus, I'm not sure what she thought Eastern Beaver might sell 

[tj189]

I'm not sure what she thought Eastern Beaver might sell 

 

[atoyot]

+1 for the fuse block.

I got two of these

http://www.fuzeblocks.com/

Not sure if there's much difference from the eastern beaver one though. What I like is the fact that you can run switched or battery power simply by changing the fuse location.

[Biggles]

That Fuzeblock design is very clever.
I'm not sure I would always run the ground wire back to the block (unnecessary extra wire) but would be good if the service was located near the block.
I'm thinking my next bike will have to be wired with one of these.  Much easier to keep tabs rather than my present dog's breakfast (although it does have its own logic, just I have to remember it any time I go in there).

[Biggles]

This feature of the Fuzeblock is handy.

The relay is replaceable by de-soldering the relay and replacing it with a new one.
If the relay fails on the road, the best suggestion is to move the fuses from the switched position to the constant position to get home. Make sure that you power off any devices when turning off the bike at that point. Once home you can work on replacing the relay.