Battery cable length

anix

For future reference as I am change my cables out before long...On my cart and others that I have seen pictures of, they seem to have the same length bat. to bat. cables. Do they need to be matched in length? If not I can reduce the overall amount of cable used by turning half the batteries around. If you are custom making cable it looks like less would be better???

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Volt_Ampere

Less is better as long as you don't go to extremes. Every foot of cable robbs a little bit of power.

Speedchaser

Less is better because it will have less resistance. Turning bats to reduce length is a good idea. Make sure you can remove caps though cuz you dont want to have to remove cables to water the bats.

anix

The way it looks I can get rid of about 2.5-3ft of cable and not interfere with the caps at all.

Volt_Ampere

Make sure you leave a little slack and do not interfere with the caps at all. Less cable is good all around as long as it isn't in the way of things.

Swan

I would like to see what your configuration would be ...

anix

Swan..I will try to draw it out and see if I can post it.

anix

Maybe this will show up ok...didn't have a lot of time to draw it out...This maybe how everybody else has theirs already.

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Volt_Ampere

You had better recheck your drawing. You have some of your + and - flipped. Make sure it matches your actual batteries.

Swan

thanks , mine a different then was in your now pic . my middle two are 180 degrees. in your after view couldn't you spin the bottom right (neg go into the obc ) and short one more .