Anderson Plugs

[sasja5]

Hi everybody, quick question, should I wire the anderson plug pos and neg to battery, and all the way back to the plug or earth it out to the chassis????
Cmon old Tony??????

 

[Jason]

Either will work but best practice is to run both neg and pos back to the battery.

This eliminates potential voltage drops from poor connections, bolts, rust, body filler etc etc. Also, chassis is steel, cable is copper, mixing metals in an electrical circuit can cause electrolysis.

The positive cable should also contain an inline fuse, as close to the battery terminal as possible.

 

[sasja5]

t y Jason

 

[Old.Tony]

Agreed. I ran both of mine all the way from the battery (well, negative went to the battery, and positive went to a circuit breaker which THEN went to the battery).

 

[sasja5]

t y Tony.

 

[wa navigator]

what the others said, always to battery,,, unless, if you are running multiple two or three connections in the tray or canopy of your rig then run one 8mm earth from your battery to the rear an then connect to this one. saves you running too many earths to the front. It's a good idea if you have a canopy because the canopy steel are a really bad earth point and a good earth inside saves a lot of penetrations in and out. Its what I did anyway.