Re: [RE-wrenches] IBE Battery Flags

2014-01-06 Thread Allan Sindelar
William, We have used numerous sets of IBEs over the years; I have them in my home. Well made. There's no standard. Every aspect of cabling is up to you. We have ordered all flag and one flag/one terminal, and even 4V cases with one welded series term

Re: [RE-wrenches] IBE Battery Flags

2014-01-06 Thread Ray Walters
Hi William; I haven't seen any standard really.  I noticed that HUPs switched from 5/16" hardware to 1/4".  I'm old school like you, and prefer 5/16" hardware, however I think if you look at the lbs of compression that the 1/4" bolt can provide, it's still

[RE-wrenches] IBE Battery Flags

2014-01-06 Thread William Miller
Friends: We replaced a set of 24 IBE batteries recently. The original set had all batteries with captive cables (and one flag) except one, which had two flags. This made it easy to connect the leads from the BOS: there was a flag on the positive and negative ends. The new set had all b