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Pointers on wiring this correctly

Discussion in 'Electrical' started by surffj62, Jun 13, 2022.

  1. Jun 13, 2022 at 5:12 PM
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    surffj62

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    Building a box for my cap- going to run wire from battery +/- to rear of bed.
    That wire will go into a box where I have mounted
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    But I don’t want it to be a constant hot so I bought some rocker switches E07AAD11-1333-4943-9DAB-92B240E6CBDD.jpg

    I’d like to use this switch to kill all power to the switch panel.
    The panel has bare positive posts to wire lights to the switches and I have a negative bus bar as well.628DC320-8B4E-49B5-A1EB-721FAF91104A.jpg
    Couple of other pics C5A64CFA-8D82-4A2D-8E61-BCA550C9BF8C.jpg8966AA3F-36A2-414F-ADDB-41A2B218C401.jpg
    It seems straight forward but do I tie the neg from battery to bus bar and the neg from toggle and lights all into same bus bar as a common ground?

    thanks!
     
  2. Jun 13, 2022 at 5:22 PM
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    Running 12 gauge wire to back.
    Just want to power some leds / 12v cig / charge phone etc while camping without putting it on the acc system and have volt meter to keep tack of how the battery is doing.
     
  3. Jun 15, 2022 at 2:32 PM
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    Wait you just want to wire a switch panel directly to your trucks battery, and then mount the panel in the bed to run lights, phone chargers ect?

    Have you done an calcuations on max potentional load of the circuit and what power it could be pulling from your battery?
     
  4. Jun 15, 2022 at 3:55 PM
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    Too many, but not enough....
    I recently did something similar with this from Amazon.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SHBBT8C?ie=UTF8

    All i did was run the wire from the fuse panel next to my switch pro in the engine bay, to a small fuse panel in a little project box, then wired the outlets to the fuse panel in the project box. I am overly cautious and a fan of overkill, so I have a 10amp fuse in the bed, then a 15 amp fuse on the panel in the engine bay. I also used 8 guage wire. 0 voltage drop.

    A word of advice on those cheap chinese electronic panels, the wiring and connectors are usually pretty garbage, i used my own 12g wire and marine rated connectors. Also the polarities on the sockets were reversed from the factory, took me a while before it dawned on me that chinese QC sucks and they probably switched leads.
     
  5. Jun 15, 2022 at 3:59 PM
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    You can run it from the battery to the back just put a fuse on the 12g wire as close to the battery as you can.
     
  6. Jun 15, 2022 at 5:27 PM
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    I have not - I currently have a few led lights back there now. Just looking to clean it up. If the volt meter was always drawing power/ hot I wouldn’t be messing with a master switch.

    so my game plan is from battery have a 15a fuse - then wire run to box. In box have pos to master switch - from there I’m kinda lost.
    Each led light has its own fuse. My cap is set up as a camper. Wanted cig power for awning light plug in erc. Everything is pretty low power
     

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