Battery cutoff switch

[Amer-team]

I fried two of the cutoffs with the screw on green cap in the M38A1. I think I had it between the two batteries, in the normal battery box location. Once I took them out, no problems.

On the M54, they took the regular dash flip switch, replaced it with a cat keyed switch on the dash and put the flip switch under the passenger seat as the cut off.

 

[maccus]

I put this switch on all my trucks. The pictures were taken before I painted the truck. The switch is in the ground line between the battery and ground. This is the same part number that CAT, IH use on their heavy equipment sometimes. You can get the switch from Eric's

Battery Master Disconnect Switch, 1331 / BA2205 / 16-03677

 

[KsM715]

Does anyone know what the amperage is going thru the ground on the Deuce (and the 5ton with 4 batts) when running the starter? I was thinking about getting a disconnect switch from these guys. ( http://www.ucominc.com/literature/ucom_catalog_2009.pdf ) It looks just like the one maccus installed and is rated the same.

I would like to put one in both the deuce and the M818.

 

[guner51]

switch

Caterpillar make a very good battery cut-off key switch. Its about as heavy duty as you can get.

 

[Bob USNR]

keyed batt cutout switch

You can get the Cat keyed switch cheap on ebay.

 

[nf6x]

I have had good results with the Pollak brand battery disconnect switches. They come in both keyed and unkeyed versions, and seem to be well-made. Note that the keys are all the same and are simple warded keys, similar to the Cat ones. When my house was being built and the guys on site didn't have the key to the New Holland skid-steer with them, I found that its ignition switch used the same Pollak key, so I got it started for them without their needing to call the boss. The Pollak switches show up on eBay, among other places. They're neither the cheapest switches nor the most expensive, but they seem to be the best-quality ones I've been able to reliably find so far.

I've had experience with both the green-knob and knife-switch disconnects that mount on the battery terminal. I consider them to be junk.

A while back, I picked up a Harbor Freight no. 66789 "Heavy Duty Battery Cutoff Switch" at the local HF store. I haven't used it yet, but it appears to be better-made than the usual electrical stuff at HF... maybe even good enough to use! It claims to have been made in India. Have any of y'all used this switch in diesel/MV applications? If so, how has it been holding up? I've had it sitting on my desk for a while, and so far it hasn't fallen apart from idly flipping the knob somewhat roughly.

I've seen and used HF's knock-offs of the Hella switches before. They don't show up on their web page now, so maybe they no longer carry them. I've used one for a light-duty application, but I wouldn't trust one in one of my MVs, or anything I care very much about. They seemed somewhat cheesy to me.