Connecting lifepo4 f2 spade terminals together?

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Kristalsdreamtrip

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Can anyone tell me how to connect together f2 spade battery terminals? I have 4 16ah lifepo4 batteries with these. Every video I see uses 1/0 guage wire or close to connect batteries so that's what I ordered but I have no idea how to go from this giant wire to these tiny terminals
 
yeah 1/0 wire is way to big for F2 terminals. How are you planning to wire these in parallel or in a series? are they 12v or are you trying to make them 12v?

Highdesertranger
 
I have been just buying them as I could afford them. They are $59 on Amazon and that's about all I can ever afford, I'll just keep buying them until I get enough
 
Right now I mostly want to keep a 12v igloo cooler running it says it draws an avg of 4.6 amps? I think... I have fans I'd like to run also
 
it depends on what the max amps you plan to use or charge at. On my 220ah lifepo4 its 4x 55ah 12 volts batteries connected together in parallel, I been using 12 gauge wires to connect everything together since I rarely use more then 15 amps. You can probably use 10 gauge on those batteries if you plan on using alot of amps. Whatever wire you use, make sure its pure copper, they sell cheaper copperclad wire (speaker wire) that I would avoid for connecting  batteries together.

Once all batteries are connected together in parallel, the main wires that will go to your load or charger can be much larger. Those are the wires that will get warm when current passes through them.

To connect them I been using xt60 connectors on each battery then I connect those xt60 to a 4 way "Y" connecter. Once you got them all connected, you have one giant battery. You can add more batteries as you buy more, just get more "y" connectors as required.

My other li-ion battery bank is 12x 26ah batteries connected together in parallel (4 connected to 4 way, then those 4 ways connected to a 3 way), I can add more if I wanted to and had room for them. Just make sure the extra batteries you are adding are at the same voltage as all the other batteries when you add them to the system and that all the wires are the same length on each battery. I use xt60 connectors because of there price and there ability to handle 60 amps, but there are other connectors available, just avoid the SAE connectors due to they can be connected backwards. 







This are the terminals you talking about

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xt60 I use to connect together, shown is a 2 way "y" connecter, you can use a 4 way, 6 way or whatever size you need. or use 2x 2 ways to connect 4 batteries. On your battery, the blade connectors would be on the end of the xt60 male connecter and then connected to the "y" female connectors.

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In the winter, I have a 12v blanket I'll need to run. I have an old school 35lb glass 250w solar panel on my roof that was donated to me. I also have a small 8ah baudens power station. I have the charge controller, the cheap 100amp type, and I have the battery isolator but nothing's hooked up. I just keep watching videos but I need advice. Thank you so much for trying to help me
 
I would hook them up with 10 gauge wire to a positive and negative buss bar. I would try to keep that run as short and as close to equal length as possible. Then you could run heavier wires off the buss bar if you need them. Plus it would take all those wire from 4 batteries down to 2 wires. Highdesertranger
 
highdesertranger said:
I would hook them up with 10 gauge wire to a positive and negative buss bar.  I would try to keep that run as short and as close to equal length as possible.  Then you could run heavier wires off the buss bar if you need them.  Plus it would take all those wire from 4 batteries down to 2 wires.  Highdesertranger

This is what I would do as well.  You can get away with thinner wire with shorter wire lengths.  So wire all of your positive terminals of the batteries to a positive buss bar with as short of #10AWG wire as you can get away with.  Then you can take thicker wire from the buss bar to the inverter or whatever from there.  I would not use any splitters or y-connectors or anything like that.
 
HDRs advice on a bus bar is a good idea. I have used small SLA batteries that have that same terminal for years and I always make a cable to parallel them using spade connectors. I like using my cable but it can be dangerous connecting it in tight spaces with the other terminal so close to it. I've welded terminals together accidentally before.

The only reason I like my way is so that I can wire the positive lead to battery A and the negative lead to battery D to balance them. But those are lead acid. Lifepo4s have a BMS in each battery so I assume you wouldn't need to balance them with the wiring?
 
XERTYX said:
HDRs advice on a bus bar is a good idea. I have used small SLA batteries that have that same terminal for years and I always make a cable to parallel them using spade connectors. I like using my cable but it can be dangerous connecting it in tight spaces with the other terminal so close to it. I've welded terminals together accidentally before.

The only reason I like my way is so that I can wire the positive lead to battery A and the negative lead to battery D to balance them. But those are lead acid. Lifepo4s have a BMS in each battery so I assume you wouldn't need to balance them with the wiring?

Lithium's don't need to be balanced like that but you can still parallel them in that wiring method if you want to.  Usually they can go up to 4 batteries in parallel like that before you have problems.
 
Go to the link you were give in your intro. it has a tutorial on how to post pictures. you can also post a link like this,

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Sea-Sys...d=1621888985&sprefix=blue+sea+,aps,447&sr=8-5

Blue Sea is top of the line. also note that bus bars have an amp rating, you absolutely don't want one with to low of a rating and one to big could be a waste of money but will not hurt a thing except your pocket.

Highdesertranger
 
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