Batteries for all your collection?

[Maxwell-8 4,270]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

Agreed. 

I got similar ones of a different make and still commercial grade to use on some things here.  

Certainly appears to be very heavy duty and easy to disconnect for convenience or emergency. 

 

install a plug in the front and the back of your WH, and on all you 12v needed attachments, and you got yourself a very modulair system.

 

 plow mounted lights, trailer lights, etc.

Edited January 2, 2021 by Maxwell-8

[19richie66 16,942]

I have them on my Hesston so I can disconnect the battery. I plan on making a trickle charger attachment that I can plug into them all. Eventually, all my tractors will have them. 

[ebinmaine 63,149]

6 minutes ago, 19richie66 said:

Eventually, all my tractors will have them. 

Might be an add-on we start doing too. 

 

 

[19richie66 16,942]

One half will eventually get solidly mounted and the other half comes out with the battery. 👍

[ebinmaine 63,149]

1 hour ago, 19richie66 said:

One half will eventually get solidly mounted and the other half comes out with the battery. 👍

Same thought I had.  

 

Could be handy. 

Especially for machines not often used. 

[Maxwell-8 4,270]

11 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Same thought I had.  

 

Could be handy. 

Especially for machines not often used. 

They are 120 amps MAX, but can handle more amps for shorter periods.

[ebinmaine 63,149]

6 minutes ago, Maxwell-8 said:

They are 120 amps MAX, but can handle more amps for shorter periods.

Yep. 

 

K341 starter draw can be 125 amps or so for short periods. 

It would be fine. 

[DennisThornton 4,769]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

Yep. 

 

K341 starter draw can be 125 amps or so for short periods. 

It would be fine. 

I WAS concerned about that!  But QUICK starts are one thing, long drawn out winter starts could be different.

[19richie66 16,942]

Used them on winches at work with hard pulls and never had an my issues.

[ebinmaine 63,149]

17 minutes ago, DennisThornton said:

I WAS concerned about that!  But QUICK starts are one thing, long drawn out winter starts could be different.

They take a decent sized battery cable so I wouldn't be any concerned. 

[Tractorhead 8,611]

I would have no doubt that they even last 160Amps for short times.

As long as the Contact Surfaces are clean and greased, they will last.

only the care of the contact surfaces i see as an trouble zone, that is very important in my opinion.

 

Btw. This connectors are available in different sizes up to 500Amps.

Have seen shortly one on an RV that was in our Office, while a other Company used that connector for a

external Charging Connection at the outside for a Sterling 200A Charging booster long term over that.

It was a changable Platform RV where you can use the Truck allone or with the House on as RV.

To upgrade our Electric this Company mounts the Connector as changable option,

but they didn‘t told the customer they have to keep them clean and greased.

 

That runs few years without less problems, but they didn‘t take care on that connector, so it begins to rotten down

and missed it’s Ground connection.

A nearly burning RV in our Office was a result of this missed care when our customer arrived our Office.

 

[R. L. Addison 299]

I have two tractors I keep mon ready stand-by year round out of hopefully three runners (want to  add one more??), but I do not intend to  have more than two batteries for them. one of them will always be  inactive 

(I think) because I can only do so much, & if I need the idle tractor I will take the battery out of one of the others to use in it. It is my experience that a battery needs to be used and not sit for long periods of time or it can die. It will take a little bit of doing, but I have three of the above plugs and I think two more will suffice for this. I had an electric start Briggs on a lawn vacuum (no charging system) and hooked up and mounted the plug under the seat and cables long enough to plug into tractor plug, & I never pulled the starter rope to start it.  Minor modifications will be made for mt5his IF the GOOD LORD grants I get to do this.

 

 

Also at work these plugs were used on our electric carts which had batteries changed every shift, with very little problem

[ohiofarmer 3,157]

Lots of good info here. Since this started out as a battery thread, i will share the largest conventional battery that will fit the space of a battery mounted low on the frame. The mighty C-160 has a free donor battery that was allowed to discharge from sitting too long. It was in a Mazda Miata about 9 years old [the car]  Anyway, with a build date of 12/19 and a CCA of 500 , this battery sure should have the onions to crank a c-160.

 i am not so sure that a battery on coil engine with an old fashioned rectifier is not better served with a lead acid battery anyway. That viewpoint is what a contingent of bike guys have been saying , but that is internet opinion and I am not taking a position on that. This battery I have is a post style, so I will have to use post to commercial adapters to make it work.

 As the picture shows, that battery completely fills the battery box

[ebinmaine 63,149]

1 hour ago, ohiofarmer said:

battery

Do you know what BCI group # that is?

[ohiofarmer 3,157]

7 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Do you know what BCI group # that is?

It is a 51R    Super Start  51REXT    Not cheap by any means. 

 

  I have bought Red tractors for less

Edited January 7, 2021 by ohiofarmer

[ebinmaine 63,149]

15 minutes ago, ohiofarmer said:

It is a 51R    Super Start  51REXT    Not cheap by any means. 

 

  I have bought Red tractors for less

Yepp. 

51 is what's in Cinnamon. 

I got it at the salvage yard. 

 

Getting a bit slow to rumble so I need another. And one for the Charger..