Bigfoot (2 negative battery ground wires???)
Can anyone help? Looking in the battery compartment I have 1 red positive wire and 2 negative labeled wires , one of the negative wires is black it maybe a 6 or 8 gauge can’t tell which is running ...
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I never liked the idea of black and white wires connected directly to the battery in an RV. That’s just asking for trouble. Some day Murphy’s Law is going catch up with you, and the magic smoke is going to be released.
This is a picture of the wires that used to be in the battery box of my TC. Note that I wrapped colored tape around the black and white wires to indicate that the black wires go to the “+” side and white goes to the “-“ side of the battery. Another thing I didn’t like were how many wires were entering the battery box. What a mess!
When I was doing another project I decided to fix all that. I ran red/black “0” awg wires from the battery to some red/black bus bars just outside the battery box, and moved all the wires that used to connect directly to the battery to them.
Now the only wires that enter the battery box are red/black, and there’s no confusion about what goes where. The only devices that bypass the buss bars and connect directly to the camper battery are the Trimetric panel and Redarc DC-DC charger.
:):)
This is a picture of the wires that used to be in the battery box of my TC. Note that I wrapped colored tape around the black and white wires to indicate that the black wires go to the “+” side and white goes to the “-“ side of the battery. Another thing I didn’t like were how many wires were entering the battery box. What a mess!
When I was doing another project I decided to fix all that. I ran red/black “0” awg wires from the battery to some red/black bus bars just outside the battery box, and moved all the wires that used to connect directly to the battery to them.
Now the only wires that enter the battery box are red/black, and there’s no confusion about what goes where. The only devices that bypass the buss bars and connect directly to the camper battery are the Trimetric panel and Redarc DC-DC charger.
:):)
