tidying up the battery hook up
On my Creek Side 20fq there is two 8ga. negative wires and two 8ga. positive wires going to the battery. There is also a wire coming from the electric tongue jack. I assume one of the hot wires is f...
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Should be a positive wire on the battery for the breakaway switch too. That wire should not be fused, so is separate, not spliced into a fused red wire upstream of a red's fuse.
On our trailer the two red wires on the battery are for the battery-fuse panel- converter and the other one is for the slide.
Ours also came with two whites on the neg post. One was the battery to frame "ground" to make the neg path through the frame for the battery-fuse panel circuit (power centre is "grounded" to frame near that. ) Never found out what the other one is for, but it must be on the frame because everything works with only one of them (either one)
On ours the pre-wire for solar wires came with them dangling above the battery bank with no lugs on them. You have to take it from there to finish an installation. There is another spot inside the rig (under the kitchen sink in ours) where the pair from the roof meets the pair that goes to the battery bank. That is where they figured you would insert the controller. In fact the best way is to link the wires under the sink to be one long pair from roof to battery area, and put the controller near the battery with that long pair as input. Use another short pair you supply from the controller output to battery.
On our trailer the two red wires on the battery are for the battery-fuse panel- converter and the other one is for the slide.
Ours also came with two whites on the neg post. One was the battery to frame "ground" to make the neg path through the frame for the battery-fuse panel circuit (power centre is "grounded" to frame near that. ) Never found out what the other one is for, but it must be on the frame because everything works with only one of them (either one)
On ours the pre-wire for solar wires came with them dangling above the battery bank with no lugs on them. You have to take it from there to finish an installation. There is another spot inside the rig (under the kitchen sink in ours) where the pair from the roof meets the pair that goes to the battery bank. That is where they figured you would insert the controller. In fact the best way is to link the wires under the sink to be one long pair from roof to battery area, and put the controller near the battery with that long pair as input. Use another short pair you supply from the controller output to battery.
