riggyk
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Hi Everyone,
Huge thanks out there to Bob for posting his instructional video and helping me a bit with some guidance on this. - Given that my van is going in for some inspection and maintenance work before I hit the road, I'm also having them install my solenoid setup, or.... to get the meat of it done for later connection. If anyone has a minute, I'm looking for some feedback on my circuit soundness and some thoughts to the below questions, which would really help guide my process:
**** I've attached some photos of a frontal view of my engine, my battery, and the closest area next to the battery (side wall where battery ground is) that might be sufficient for mounting? My questions are thus:
1) What's a good strategy for placement overall (across any car), and more specifically given this setup? I assume it's hard to make a judgement call completely from photos, but just looking for some logic here should I need to give the mechanics a heads up.
2) In talking to Bob, my whole electrical setup (solar circuit and battery house) is still underway (going in in a day or two), so the reason for having this solenoid installed ahead of time is to kill two birds with one stone and get some mechanical help with the install, that frankly I didn't want to try all on my own. If I have these guys mount the solenoid, connect it to the 150a fuse and starter battery, ground it, and connect it to my fuse block, connect/drill/run the long wire into the van, but leave it unattached to my future house battery circuit, is it OK to leave that hot wire wrapped up safely with electrical tape or something and install it to my house Buss at a future date? Any safety considerations there?
3) Below is my circuit, does this look sufficient and sound? Assume 4awg wire across the whole circuit.
Circuit: House Battery ---> + 5/16 Buss Bars (Blue Sea) ---> 150ANL Fuse --> Long Run 4AWG Wire --> Cole Hersee 200A Continuous Duty --> 4AWG to another 150ANL Fuse ---> Starter Battery. :: Front small X2 #10 terminals: 1 to ground, 1 to 10a waterproof fuse connected to Fuse Block. (all with 16awg wire)
I also want to give a huge THANKS to everyone here. Ya'll are super intelligent and kind people and very gracious for helping out a young guy who knows absolutely NOTHING about all this, but enjoying the learning curve!
Huge thanks out there to Bob for posting his instructional video and helping me a bit with some guidance on this. - Given that my van is going in for some inspection and maintenance work before I hit the road, I'm also having them install my solenoid setup, or.... to get the meat of it done for later connection. If anyone has a minute, I'm looking for some feedback on my circuit soundness and some thoughts to the below questions, which would really help guide my process:
**** I've attached some photos of a frontal view of my engine, my battery, and the closest area next to the battery (side wall where battery ground is) that might be sufficient for mounting? My questions are thus:
1) What's a good strategy for placement overall (across any car), and more specifically given this setup? I assume it's hard to make a judgement call completely from photos, but just looking for some logic here should I need to give the mechanics a heads up.
2) In talking to Bob, my whole electrical setup (solar circuit and battery house) is still underway (going in in a day or two), so the reason for having this solenoid installed ahead of time is to kill two birds with one stone and get some mechanical help with the install, that frankly I didn't want to try all on my own. If I have these guys mount the solenoid, connect it to the 150a fuse and starter battery, ground it, and connect it to my fuse block, connect/drill/run the long wire into the van, but leave it unattached to my future house battery circuit, is it OK to leave that hot wire wrapped up safely with electrical tape or something and install it to my house Buss at a future date? Any safety considerations there?
3) Below is my circuit, does this look sufficient and sound? Assume 4awg wire across the whole circuit.
Circuit: House Battery ---> + 5/16 Buss Bars (Blue Sea) ---> 150ANL Fuse --> Long Run 4AWG Wire --> Cole Hersee 200A Continuous Duty --> 4AWG to another 150ANL Fuse ---> Starter Battery. :: Front small X2 #10 terminals: 1 to ground, 1 to 10a waterproof fuse connected to Fuse Block. (all with 16awg wire)
I also want to give a huge THANKS to everyone here. Ya'll are super intelligent and kind people and very gracious for helping out a young guy who knows absolutely NOTHING about all this, but enjoying the learning curve!