1993 Splash in SC

[Curious Hound]

Some stuff has been happening. I drilled a bunch of holes in my cab today and ran some wires. Pos & Neg from main truck battery to the overland system and Pos & Neg from house battery rack to the overland system. Also ran the AC and DC supply cables out to my charging station box. Laid out all my components for the system on a piece of 3/4" plywood that will mount to the rear wall of the cab. Now, I just have to do all the interconnections, plus add the solar panels and their wiring.

Starting from the right side (driver side); electric T-Case control module, small blue box is the solar panel controller. Barely visible just to the left of the T-case module is a battery monitor with Bluetooth reporting capability. Bottom/center is a relay that automatically disconnects the truck battery from the system during heavy discharge, ie; starting engine. I can put a manual override on that. Center- two 200amp breakers. One for the house batteries and one for the inverter. There will be a 150amp breaker under the hood on the feed coming from the truck battery. Far left, big blue thing is the inverter. There is also a Negative terminal post just above the circuit breakers as a point to tie all the negatives together.

I'm almost ready to pull the panel back out to finish the interconnections between components. Then I'll paint the plywood before final installation.

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

Looking good. Can't wait to see it all done and working.

 

[Curious Hound]

Today, my goal was to relocate the pressure regulator for my air tank. It was in.a position that interfered with the house batteries. So, the regulator got moved to the rear crossmember. My quick connect fitting for the air hose was near the driver side wheel.and spring hangar. That got moved to.a much more convenient location. And, since I was working in that area, I installed the receptacle where the refrigerator will plug into the system. More tomorrow, after I mow the weeds, although the smoke from the forest fires, combined with high pollen levels might mess me up a bit.

This should be easy to reach for airing up.

This is only about 8 inches from where the cord connects to the refrigerator.

 

[Curious Hound]

A little more today. I made a bracket to hold the circuit breaker for the truck battery. I had space to add it onto the bracket for my line lock on the front brakes. Then I crimped connectors on those cables and connected them. Unfortunately, my new battery clamps came with 3/8" connection bolts and all my existing lugs had 5/16" holes. AND, I dont6have any longer 5/16" bolts to replace them. So, the positive side has a temporary piece of threaded rod. Cables are zip-tied away from.the exhaust and steering shaft.

150amp circuit breaker right there.

A piece of motorcycle inner tube makes a nice cover to keep things from accidentally touching the breaker terminals.

 

[Curious Hound]

Had a rainy afternoon. So I working indoors. I spliced the plug onto the 12vdc cord for my refrigerator. Now that's ready to plug into the receptacle I installed. Then I soldered pigtails onto a few lengths of LED strip lights and installed them as interior lighting in the cab.

2 strips down the center, now functioning as "dome light" activated by the door switches.

2 more strips in the center, plus a strip over each door as convenience lighting activated by a switch on the aux switch panel.

All of them energized at the same time.

 

[SenorNoob]

I was gonna ask about your seat, then I realized it's a chair pad...

 

[Curious Hound]

I was gonna ask about your seat, then I realized it's a chair pad...

Yeah. I'd live to get them reupholstered. But it's not in the budget. The foam in that seat is disintegrating and falling out the bottom.

 

[SenorNoob]

You have the skills. Do it yourself. It's not hard to take the seat apart. I took the cover and foam from a junkyard passenger seat to fix my driver before. I need to do it again.

 

[Curious Hound]

You have the skills. Do it yourself. It's not hard to take the seat apart. I took the cover and foam from a junkyard passenger seat to fix my driver before. I need to do it again.

Thanks. But that's the kind of thing where I'll get impatient and do a lousy job. And used foam from the junkyard will be old anyway. I'll wait until I can get it done right.

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

Thanks. But that's the kind of thing where I'll get impatient and do a lousy job. And used foam from the junkyard will be old anyway. I'll wait until I can get it done right.

Let's just say I know a guy who works at a shop where they do interior work. I'm pretty sure they have stock piles of new foam and the tools to cut and mold it haha

 

[Curious Hound]

Let's just say I know a guy who works at a shop where they do interior work. I'm pretty sure they have stock piles of new foam and the tools to cut and mold it haha

Hmmm...

So it seems that I know a guy who knows a guy.

 

[Curious Hound]

Finished cutting, crimping and heat shrinking all the big cables. This weekend, I'll disassemble everything from the plywood and lay the plywood on sawhorses in the garage so I can paint it while I'm recovering from surgery. Not supposed to lift anything heavier than 10 lbs for a few weeks. So I'm trying to stage "non-lifting" projects for that time.

 

[Curious Hound]

Let me explain, in simple terms, what I’m doing with this electrical system.

 

[Curious Hound]

For anyone who is interested, Here is the official electrical plan for my "House Power" system.

 

[sgtsandman]

For anyone who is interested, Here is the official electrical plan for my "House Power" system.

Now, it could just be the limitation of how you had to draw the diagram, but shouldn't the circuit breakers for the inverter and the house batteries be closer to the source of power? That way, if a wire gets chaffed, you don't have all that power shorting out on to the chassis somewhere.