Instruction Manual

Doc. #: 0260011-J0 Rev B

5.3 DC Battery and Ground Cabling

5.3.1 Hardware and Torque Speciﬁcations

The DC wiring is attached with 3/8” hardware (1” bolt, washer, spring washer) and 8 are provided

with each AMPS24 system (2 per each of the 4 bolting locations). However, the crimp or lug is not

provided.

The crimp/lug can either be on 1” centers with 3/8” or ½” holes, or 1.75” centers with ½” holes only.

Bus bar tie kits for DC- are included to give the installer the option to make a single battery

connection or two separate battery connections (A/B feeds).

Torque speciﬁcations for DC wiring (3/8" bolts that attach the DC lugs at the back of the DC

distribution box) are as follows:

• Imperial: 190 – 240 inch/lbs

• Metric: 21.5 – 27.1 N-m

5.3.2 DC Bat tery Wiring – Single Feed

The following ﬁgures show a unit wired for single feed with two battery strings in parallel.

GND

DC plus

DC minusTie Bar

NOTE: the

wire lugs

shown are

for illustration

only. They

are not sup-

plied with the

equipment.

Figure 19 — Single feed, parallel battery strings

AMPS24 HP

To MGB

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