[Tom Line]

Something we've found that helps immensely is to bend the two leads so they are pointing toward eachother. Where the leads cross, we zip tie them together with a huge ziptie. Then we zip tie them above that so they are in a single lead.

We used to put a hole in 'handle' piece of the battery to zip tie the wires, but we've been told that any modification of the battery is illegal, so we don't do that any more.

Here's a sketch.