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ozjeff62



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Boot mounted auxiliary battery fitted.

Well I knocked this project off this weekend.

Routed the cable out of the boot under the left rear seat, under the sill trims and through the firewall using the bonnet release cable port.

Everything is awfully tight in there, I damaged about four trim scrivets.

Greatest luck though, stuck a coathanger down the firewall and it accidentally went through the bonnet release hole. That could have been many hours of mucking around.

The cable is 5 metres of 6B&S twin core, an ATEM VSR, a pair of 100A circuit breakers and Anderson plugs in the boot. Circuit breakers go on the positive cable as close as possible to each battery.

I used the secondary earth point at the front. I don't know why, but it was there.

I am the world's worst solderer it seems so I won't be surprised if it fails at some point. But now it's over i feel pretty ok.

Cheers. MY11 SD4 SE Auto
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Just like it left the factory. MY11 SD4 SE Auto
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Lightwater



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How are you holding the battery down?

I have strips of aluminium under the boot floor (unfortunately covered by insulation) to hold the fridge to the floor.

The one bolt which you can see is where the tyre is so it had to be as thin as possible so I used a very large washer with a countersunk M6 Allan bolt up through the floor so it's only about 2mm thick under the floor.

 Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18
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Simon J



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What do you plan to use the battery for as that’s a lot of heavy duty cabling you’re using?
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Lightwater



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How I solder 175amp lugs, with two 120watt irons & half fill the lug with solder & also pre heat the wire with another iron. It's hard to get enough heat into 6awg wire but 2 irons make it easier.

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 Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

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If charging at 20 amps over 10 metres (there & back) that's 0.264 voltage drop. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18
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Lightwater wrote:
How are you holding the battery down?


My exact thought when I saw the pic?
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ozjeff62



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Lightwater wrote:
How are you holding the battery down?



Probably use webbing over and around the battery going through the tie down point behind it, although I haven't settled on the location/orientation yet, see how it works with the fridge in situ. MY11 SD4 SE Auto
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Lightwater



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A few photos down this page of my custom fridge bracket. It's only 6mm thick so it is fixed in permanently. Maybe some ideas for a bracket for the battery.
https://www.freel2.com/forum/topic29388.html Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18
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