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RoyB
May 25, 2013Explorer II
Be sure to surf the POPUP PORTAL LINK. They have alot of info on the older POPUPS...
REBUILD of 1970 Startcraft POPUP like yours.
I replaced my very simple ELIXIR Power Center on my 2008 POPUP with a WF 8900 series power panel which had a WF8945 COnverter/charger unit in the bottom compartment. Then I found out the WF8945 unit would never go into smart mode charging so added a PD9260C to the system to support my then four each 85AHs Interstate batteries.
Sounds like you may want to to decide what all you want to. I basically have all of these 120VAC and 12VDC units in my 12-foot main floor POPUP and needed a good power power panel that had enough 120VAC Circuit breaker positions and 12VDC fuse positions to power all of the items.

This is my floorplan layout

This is where most of my appliances are all located inside the cabinets

This is my WF8900 series power center diagram

Just passing all of this along to get you thinking what all could be done if you wanted to attack such a project. Of course I'm think you may only have a 6-foot box where mine is a 12-foot box... Didnt look up your specs...
We camp out alot off the power grid and have all the 120VAC and 12VDC toys we want to have when camping to run one day/nite camping run off our bigger batter bank. Then we re-charge the batteries the next morning using our smart mode technology converter/charger unit by connecting our shore power cable directly to our 2KW Honda generator 120VAC receptacle using a RV30A-15A long adapter. We always run into the problems here on the East side of the US of not being allowed to run our generator when we want to so the way out for us was to beef up the trailer and run off the batteries for camping off the power grids.
We have camped all over the south and and far west as OKLA/TEXAS pulling our OFF-ROAD POPUP. Love the high country of VA-NC-TN-NC-SC-AL-GA Natl forest areas the best.
Camping in Wichita Wildlife Refuge at Medicine Park OK

Roy Ken
REBUILD of 1970 Startcraft POPUP like yours.
I replaced my very simple ELIXIR Power Center on my 2008 POPUP with a WF 8900 series power panel which had a WF8945 COnverter/charger unit in the bottom compartment. Then I found out the WF8945 unit would never go into smart mode charging so added a PD9260C to the system to support my then four each 85AHs Interstate batteries.
Sounds like you may want to to decide what all you want to. I basically have all of these 120VAC and 12VDC units in my 12-foot main floor POPUP and needed a good power power panel that had enough 120VAC Circuit breaker positions and 12VDC fuse positions to power all of the items.

This is my floorplan layout

This is where most of my appliances are all located inside the cabinets

This is my WF8900 series power center diagram

Just passing all of this along to get you thinking what all could be done if you wanted to attack such a project. Of course I'm think you may only have a 6-foot box where mine is a 12-foot box... Didnt look up your specs...
We camp out alot off the power grid and have all the 120VAC and 12VDC toys we want to have when camping to run one day/nite camping run off our bigger batter bank. Then we re-charge the batteries the next morning using our smart mode technology converter/charger unit by connecting our shore power cable directly to our 2KW Honda generator 120VAC receptacle using a RV30A-15A long adapter. We always run into the problems here on the East side of the US of not being allowed to run our generator when we want to so the way out for us was to beef up the trailer and run off the batteries for camping off the power grids.
We have camped all over the south and and far west as OKLA/TEXAS pulling our OFF-ROAD POPUP. Love the high country of VA-NC-TN-NC-SC-AL-GA Natl forest areas the best.
Camping in Wichita Wildlife Refuge at Medicine Park OK

Roy Ken
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