Anderson Powerpoles are the ones to use. It's what I mounted on my Westy. I used the 75 amp variety, and crimped mine (I have a crimper of just the proper size.) Designed for high current, high quality connections. You can get different colors of the housings (blue, green, red, black)
On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Loren Busch wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Vanagon <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been looking for a suitable connector to mount on the aft bulkhead
>> of the engine battery compartment to use for jumping and to connect to my
>> tire air compressor. That way I don't need to open the lid to access the
>> terminals. If anyone can recommend a good connector, it would be swell to
>> hear about it.
>>
>
> Try these: http://www.powerwerx.com/anderson-powerpoles/
> I have a bunch of Anderson Powerpole connectors in use in my rig, from the
> little ones up to the 75 amp series. The big ones require either a monster
> crimper or soldering.  I soldered mine.  And everything is buried in the
> connector, noting exposed.