Blue Sea Systems 12v Outlet Installations
In today's electronic age you can never have enough USB charging ports and electrical outlets in your RV. This is especially true for those of us who work while on the road. My office is actually loca...
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I got mine installed on sunday. I mounted the '360' plate in the kitchen wall. There was an AC plug there already so I was hoping I could fish my wires through the same hole... but no such luck. I had to drill my own hole from the upper gun cabinet down into the undersink area. Wow was I nervous drilling that hole... I had visions of it coming out through the outside of the camper. Things like that happen to me.
I then decided I couldn't make the big square hole because of the framing for the cabinet behind the plug so I just drilled the holes for the actual plugs. This worked pretty well other than I also had to drill countersink holes so that the plate would sit flush against the wall. Here's a shot showing the holes drilled.
This is a shot with the plate mounted. It looks a bit crooked but it's actually the AC plug that's installed crooked, I'll have to fix that. It doesn't look as bad in reality.
I also installed a plug beside the bed, I couldn't see anywhere clever to put it so I just top mounted it. It was handy because I could run the wire inside the same cabinet.
To feed it I tapped into an unused pigtail wire feed off of my converter. The ground went to the grounding block.
I like the plugs but I'll probably take them apart to disable the LED, especially the bedside one, I think the light will drive me nuts.
I have a couple more of the small plugs and I'll probably run a line behind the fridge and the wardrobe over to my wife's side of the bed. Somehow I ended up ordering 2 of the 360 plates, not sure where the other one's going to go.
I then decided I couldn't make the big square hole because of the framing for the cabinet behind the plug so I just drilled the holes for the actual plugs. This worked pretty well other than I also had to drill countersink holes so that the plate would sit flush against the wall. Here's a shot showing the holes drilled.
This is a shot with the plate mounted. It looks a bit crooked but it's actually the AC plug that's installed crooked, I'll have to fix that. It doesn't look as bad in reality.
I also installed a plug beside the bed, I couldn't see anywhere clever to put it so I just top mounted it. It was handy because I could run the wire inside the same cabinet.
To feed it I tapped into an unused pigtail wire feed off of my converter. The ground went to the grounding block.
I like the plugs but I'll probably take them apart to disable the LED, especially the bedside one, I think the light will drive me nuts.
I have a couple more of the small plugs and I'll probably run a line behind the fridge and the wardrobe over to my wife's side of the bed. Somehow I ended up ordering 2 of the 360 plates, not sure where the other one's going to go.
