opnspaces wrote:
Unfortunately I'm going to bet your front wall is the same Styrofoam as the rear making it impossible to just push a wire through. What gauge wiring are you running down the wall? Can you hide it on the surface behind some white or tan channeling?
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It looks like you have cabinets on either side of the trailer that comes down most of the front wall. And I'm assuming there's a night stand table feature under the cabinets leaving a gap between the two of about maybe 18 inches. I would take the voltage drop hit and extend the wire over to the drivers side front corner and come down inside the cabinet. Then it's only a short run of visually exposed channel under the cabinet to the night stand and then across to the batteries. I'll bet after a week you wont even notice the channeling unless you actively remind yourself it's there and look at it.
You could even put something in front of the exposed channel like a framed picture of the family or a vase of silk flowers velcroed down so it doesn't move during travel.
Thanks. Yeah, that is roughly my Plan B. And yes, it may be near to impossible to route a wire down through styrofoam, if that is the insulation. The left and right cabinets are roughly only 12 inches above the built-in nightstands, so yeah, I could route the wire through one of the "wardrobe" cabinets, down into the back of the nightstand, and then into the pass through to the solar controller. As you say, the only place the wire would be exposed is between the wardrobe and the nightstand, at the back, hardly would be noticeable, or I could run it in the corner and cover it with something.
I'll probably run 4 gauge wire down from the roof combiner box. I was going to run 6 gauge, but 4 gauge wire is a bare few pennies more per foot, so I'll just run 4 gauge and have minimal voltage loss.
