Battery relocation project - BF10.4
At the risk of being accused of trolling (:)) I thought those of you with a BF 10.x might be interested. I bought my camper without batteries. The original compartment is nice and large with conven...
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Thanks for the compliments.
I do like the Lifelines. I had a 4D in my old camper, lasted only about 11 years. The ones in the boat are going on 8 years now. I've never tried the Odysseys, how are they working out? It seemed like their main claim was lots of starting current, rather than high 20 hour capacity.
I will strap the batteries to the tray. There isn't much room for them to move anyway. They would bounce around a bit in a roll over, but then I have larger concerns.
I notice you used a Mega fuse holder right at the terminal. Fairly recently Buss along with some others have made a terminal mounted high capacity fuse just for this purpose. Anyone contemplating fusing should take a look at for example the Blue Sea terminal fuse block. You can get these at West Marine (or online a lot of places). Two terminals with different sizes (I will use 200 amps for the inverter and 50 for the house circuits). I like the idea of fusing right at the terminal - the six inch wire allowed by the rules always just seemed like another point of (unprotected) failure.
I do like the Lifelines. I had a 4D in my old camper, lasted only about 11 years. The ones in the boat are going on 8 years now. I've never tried the Odysseys, how are they working out? It seemed like their main claim was lots of starting current, rather than high 20 hour capacity.
I will strap the batteries to the tray. There isn't much room for them to move anyway. They would bounce around a bit in a roll over, but then I have larger concerns.
I notice you used a Mega fuse holder right at the terminal. Fairly recently Buss along with some others have made a terminal mounted high capacity fuse just for this purpose. Anyone contemplating fusing should take a look at for example the Blue Sea terminal fuse block. You can get these at West Marine (or online a lot of places). Two terminals with different sizes (I will use 200 amps for the inverter and 50 for the house circuits). I like the idea of fusing right at the terminal - the six inch wire allowed by the rules always just seemed like another point of (unprotected) failure.
