Bear voltage drop in mind when specifying cable diameter. It's usually somewhere in the vicinity of 15 metres round trip from the car battery to a caravan fridge and back.
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That is some long cabling from the front to the back. For the long run and voltage drop consideration you probaby want to go with at least 2-4AWG which is bigger than what I can see from the photos.
Tapping in from the battery compartment is not as hard as you may think and ideal. You need to consider Jeeps cabling length from battery to the engine bay terminal as well. But if it works for you, then great. Please tell me you are not using blade fuses??? Sent from my SM-A910F using Tapatalk |
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Yep, a lot of Auto Elecs have no idea of what we need in the way of power to a van etc. I don't know the wire size designations but mine is 5mm diameter wired to the Battery Positive and Negative terminals via a Voltage sensitive relay and circuit breaker. I have a knowledgeable Auto Elec nearby and all up it took him about an hour to run the cable etc. |
I have just finished wiring 2 Anderson plugs for my new van. As it is an off-roader my local tow bar installers advice was not to use a 12 pin but stick with the seven pin and run the andersons separately; which I did. Firstly, toprovide power for the Alko ESC, I ran 6B&S cable from the battery with a 30amp fuse to the positive under the carpet and the b-pillar and door trim and came out in the side of the spare wheel well. I removed the spare wheel and the tie down screws at the tailgate and removed that trim and the mat under the spare to access the grommet to drill through to get the cable under the car and to the rear bumper where I screwed the red Anderson inside a weather resistant housing to the underside of the bumper on the opposite side to the 7 pin socket. Similarly, to power the caravan fridge during transits I ran a second 6B&S cable pair with another fuse and another Anderson plug from my second battery (which I sit behind the front passenger seat when I am touring and was already connected thru a Projecta dcdc charger to power the car fridge when I need it) This cable runs under the rear seat and into the spare wheel well on the passenger side and feeds thru the same grommet and is fixed next to the 7 pin socket; again in a weather resistant housing and a black Anderson plug in this case. For these longer runs you need the heavy cable to minimise voltage drop. It all works well. I bought all the Anderson plugs, covers, fuses and cable from Big Al on eBay.
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