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Brian Lewis
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 02, 2002 - 02:25 pm: | 
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I have a 2001 Disco II with a Warn HD9000 winch & two Hella 4000's & Hella Matador work lamp. I want to put two Optima yellow tops were the stock battery is now & hook them up parallel. My questions are is this how I should rum them & are there online companies that carry the kits to do this (wiring, mounting brackets)? Were is the best place to buy Optima batteries ?
Thank you,
Brian |
Erik G. Burrows (Erik)
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 02, 2002 - 03:49 pm: |
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I run mine simply in parallel, but a lot of people like to use an isolator, such as the nice one from
http://www.hellroaring.com. so that you can't drain your starter battery with your winch, light-bar etc.
I've found that Pep Boys actually carries Optimas, but if you like to buy on-line go with http://www.expeditionexchange.com
As for mounting, good luck. I don't think anyone makes a bracket, but it's not too hard to make your own. I just took out that big plastic bucket that holds the stock battery, with some metal stand-offs and strapped the new batteries in with ratcheting cargo straps. I got that idea from Frank Rafka's pics in the gallery.
You can see my install at http://www.erikburrows.com , click on the link called 'my truck batteries'. |
Brian Lewis
| | Posted on Sunday, July 07, 2002 - 07:40 pm: |
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Erik,
Thanks for the help. Nice job of the custom mounting plates. I think I will run my batteries parallel.
Thanks,
Brian |
Erik G. Burrows (Erik)
| | Posted on Sunday, July 07, 2002 - 08:15 pm: |
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Actually, just today, I saw a much better setup, which I am very jelous of. It was a link posted by 'Tom' on an EE forum discussion titled 'Rear Bumper Replacement':
http://www.tompearson.net/bumperslider/disco2_stuff.htm |
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