{"id":17433,"date":"2024-12-24T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/battery-cable-layout-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T21:37:25","slug":"battery-cable-layout-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/battery-cable-layout-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery cable layout | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote\" data-author=\"Rideandrepair\">\n<aside>\n<blockquote class=\"quoteContainer\">\n<p>Looks good. As long as they\u2019re all tied together. I like the way your diagram is, because it\u2019s easy to disconnect one battery should it short out. On my Truck 2 positives go to battery, one negative to frame. Looks like you have 2 neg. I\u2019m guessing the 3rd set pos\/neg on your diagram are for a apu or inverter maybe? If inverter, the pos should be fused at the battery. There\u2019s also a set of smaller pos\/neg wires that  power the ecm. The pos. has an inline fuse to protect the ecm. The neg goes to the frame like the others. Very important to have a good ground at frame. The connection often gets corroded, same with pos inline fuse. It can get corroded or blow out from a bad installation or jump starting with loose connections, shorted battery or accidental reversing polarity (hooking up batteries or jumpers backwards) Done that before.<\/p>\n<p>Click to expand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain, but I think that the second negative cable, on the right hand side is going back towards the trailer somewhere.  Not sure about that though. The smaller guage red wire attached directly to the positive battery seems to be powering the inverter inside the cab.   Also, you are right, all of the negative ground connection to the frame were severly corroded, but we have since fixed that.  It looks like he might have driven it through some sort of extra heavy duty road salt, and didn&#8217;t rinse it off afterwards.  Thinking to put white lithium grease on some of these connections in order to prevent future corrosion issues.  <\/p>\n<p>The Freightliner dealership probably isn&#8217;t going to be able to help us with a schematic until after the holidays, so I was wondering if anyone might happen to have a clearer photograph showing how the batteries are connected inside the box?  Or maybe a picure of a schematic from a manual?  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I like the way your diagram is, because it\u2019s easy to disconnect one battery should it short out. On my Truck 2 positives go to battery, one negative to frame. Looks like you have 2 neg. I\u2019m guessing the 3rd set pos\/neg on your diagram are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}