battery terminal help

[Neothin 10+ year member]

Right now I have an 8 point groundwire kit running throughout the engine bay in my car. It's made out of 4 awg wire and all wires are ended with crimped ring terminals.

Herein lies my problem- The grounding kit already has 3 ring terminals on my negative post, so it's pretty much full. I want to run 1/0 awg for my big 3 but without anywhere on the battery to connect it, i think i'm in the market for a new terminal. I want to get knukonceptz wiring for my system and browsing through their site I noticed that they had terminals. The negative post terminal gives you a slot for one 4, one 1/0, and then a connector for a ring terminal. If I run the big 3 wire into the 1/0 connector, cut off the ring terminal from one of the groundwires and put it in the 4 connector, will the top ring terminal connector accept 2 rings instead of just 1?

For the positive I have a similar problem. I want to run 1/0 to the back, 1/0 for the big 3 wire, and then i have a 10 awg ring and a 16 awg ring that i have to hook on there for 2 other things i've hooked up. will the ring terminal connector accept the 1/0 for the big three and the 2 other rings that I need to hook on?

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[david in german 10+ year member]

A good ground harness will have multiple ground points all over but most will not be returning to the battery. connect one ground to the battery then to the body of the car then from the battery to the engine/alternator case and then daisy chain them from those points. This way yuo will only have 1 or 2 to the battery but all the good ground points hit. By using the grounding kit you have already accomplished one part of the big 3 just focus on the power side now.

David

 

[forbidden 10+ year member]

Scosche has some nice terminals with dual 0 gauge, a 4 and a 8 IIRC. We are using them on the Commander that is hogging our install bay.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

I use marine battery terminals with a 3/8" post from autozone for like $3 a pair.

They fit 4 0 gauge rings.