Home Grown Solutions

[IamJEEP]

Thanks guys...

Oh, you dont want to see me naked! LOL...........

[cico7]

For quite a while, I wanted a plug for jumper cables instead of the usual clip here,
clip there, and fight the cables. Here is what i did....

I bought 2 ANDERSON,50A ,CONNECTOR KITS, SB50A, 600V,BLACK, on ebay. I paid less than $8 for the pair.


I soldered the ends of the cables to the battery clamps. I didnt like that
the wire ends were clamped on.




I put the connectors in the vices


Filled with silver solder


I used my map gas torch on these


Side View of Plate


Lifted Plate - you can see where I drilled through to run the cable.
Routed it along side the bumper and attached to an existing harness.


Attached copper lugs to cables


Red and Black wire zip tied to wire

[cico7]

Back a ways, I added a spring loaded bracket to my front plate.





I used 2 sets of cables to do this.

[Matt]

Nice job! i was planning on doing something similar and having a plug in the front and the rear for running a winch or an OBA compressor.

I don't see it in the pics.... you do have a fuse on the power wire right???

[cico7]

Nice job! i was planning on doing something similar and having a plug in the front and the rear for running a winch or an OBA compressor.
I don't see it in the pics.... you do have a fuse on the power wire right???

Thanks Matt,

I have not added the fuse yet. I don't think I will. I wouldn't have a fuse on regular cables and
I would need a pretty high amp fuse. I think if something went wrong, I would see it when
I connected to the other battery. I wouldn't mind more input on this....

[Matt]

That's a straight up bad idea... lol sorry, no sugar coating that one. You basically ran a high amperage un-fused line to your front bumper. The slightest fender bender and you're going to (at least) fry the battery or (at worse) fry your entire vehicle.

I would disconnect that line until it's fused properly.

[Matt]

As far as using it as a jumper... you'd basically be charging the stock battery which the starter would draw from. Not sure if the fuse would blow or not.... but honestly i'd rather just pop the hood and hook up a set of jumper cables once in a blue moon as opposed to possibly ruining my vehicle if someone kicks my license plate too hard.

[cico7]

That's a straight up bad idea... lol sorry, no sugar coating that one. You basically ran a high amperage un-fused line to your front bumper. The slightest fender bender and you're going to (at least) fry the battery or (at worse) fry your entire vehicle.

I would disconnect that line until it's fused properly.

I disagree, but I am going to disconnect until I get other input.
If I am in a fender bender, a number of things can fry the battery.
However: there isn't the protection the battery has and if I rear
end someone and get a spark and a leaking gas tank....
....I will still temporaily disconnect.....

[cico7]

I wanted to update my post Jumper Cable Plug
Added the cutoff switch


And dids as Huey suggested and used zip ties to hold the key to the switch so I don't lose it and
mounted the switch with zip ties.



Zip tie mount is a temporary solution.

[Sal-XK]

Cool bro I like where your headed with your rig. I will be making some fundamental changes to my rig as well soon taking my mods in a new direction