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ford_truck_guy
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Apr 07, 2018

Is my thinking flawed on this subject??

I am looking to add a power distribution block to the back side of my wet bay for when I use the portable macerator..

The way I see it, I can just jump the red wire to the RED side post of the inverter where the cable comes from the battery.... AND the black to the black side...

Correct ?????? Am I missing something?

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  • ford_truck_guy's avatar
    ford_truck_guy
    Nomad
    Apr 08, 2018
    Bumpyroad wrote:
    fpresto wrote:
    A small tractor battery would work fine. At times I have used my portable jump start unit to power the macerator.


    instead of a tractor battery, I would suggest using a small jump starter jobby that I want to have along anyway. much handier than a liquid filled battery. that is what I used on my latest TT.
    bumpy


    That is what I decided on last night.... It could possibly serve 2 purposes...

    Thanks for all the responses......
  • Bumpyroad's avatar
    Bumpyroad
    Explorer
    Apr 08, 2018
    fpresto wrote:
    A small tractor battery would work fine. At times I have used my portable jump start unit to power the macerator.


    instead of a tractor battery, I would suggest using a small jump starter jobby that I want to have along anyway. much handier than a liquid filled battery. that is what I used on my latest TT.
    bumpy
  • fpresto's avatar
    fpresto
    Explorer
    Apr 07, 2018
    A small tractor battery would work fine. At times I have used my portable jump start unit to power the macerator.
  • ford_truck_guy's avatar
    ford_truck_guy
    Nomad
    Apr 07, 2018
    ScottG wrote:
    ford truck guy wrote:
    Scott,
    The macerator has an in-line fuse before the alligator clips..It also came with a separate inline fuse holder and fuse. I was going to put that between the inverter as a double back up?


    Hard to describe what I'm thinking but if the clips are bare metal and side by side, I'm thinking the clips themselves would/could touch each other. Then the inline fuse would not come into play.

    Make sense or is totally different than I imagine?




    This is what I was gonna use... For the reason that they can be mounted at any distance apart..

    It may just be easier to buy a small tractor battery for $30.00... The macerator will only be used 1-2 times a year....
  • ScottG's avatar
    ScottG
    Nomad
    Apr 07, 2018
    ford truck guy wrote:
    Scott,
    The macerator has an in-line fuse before the alligator clips..It also came with a separate inline fuse holder and fuse. I was going to put that between the inverter as a double back up?


    Hard to describe what I'm thinking but if the clips are bare metal and side by side, I'm thinking the clips themselves would/could touch each other. Then the inline fuse would not come into play.

    Make sense or is totally different than I imagine?
  • Bumpyroad's avatar
    Bumpyroad
    Explorer
    Apr 07, 2018
    my gen set was adjacent to my wet bay so I just tied to the red/black? lugs that were out front and center.
    bumpy
  • pauldub's avatar
    pauldub
    Explorer
    Apr 07, 2018
    You want the fuse to be located close to where you connect the wire to the power source. The purpose of the fuse is to protect the wire.
  • ford_truck_guy's avatar
    ford_truck_guy
    Nomad
    Apr 07, 2018
    Scott,
    The macerator has an in-line fuse before the alligator clips..It also came with a separate inline fuse holder and fuse. I was going to put that between the inverter as a double back up?
  • ScottG's avatar
    ScottG
    Nomad
    Apr 07, 2018
    I don't see why not but it seems like you could easily short the clamps together given the closeness. Since there's no way to fuse before the clamp, (other than the fuse for the inverter) you could have an awful short.

    I put in a HD 12V receptacle for my Mac.

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