So what did you do to your Truck Camper today?
I saw these threads in some of the other Open Roads RV Forums, but didn't see one for TCs. I'll start... I installed Interior LED puck lights and a 12v power outlet.
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It's only something small (and potentially stupid), but before telling WHAT I did, I'll first tell you why I did it. I actually did only one thing, but had to do with 3 different things. These things are:
1. I've had a bad glowplug relay, which is difficult to find out because it doesn't always happen due to how the relay works (it's a ring that turns a bit every time to get a fresh contact every time, but that works only one turn). Every time you test the relay, Murphy's law decides that you'll get a good contact and every time you need to start, the same law tells the relay not to make a good contact. This makes you search around for the cold starting problem for a long time before you get the problem.
2. I have a solenoid based battery separator and can disconnect it in an emergency with a switch in the wiring to the ground.
3. I've installed an "emergency start" switch. (and have 1/0 AWG to the 3 house batteries)
Well, what do these things have to do with each other, you probably ask. Well, at first I needed to find a place for an LED-light that's wired to the glowplugs to show me that the relay is actually working (found this idea on a forum), 2nd, I also needed a place for another LED-light that shows me that the batteries are connected by the emergency start switch and 3rd I needed a place for the "cut-off" switch.
I wanted everything to be kind of obvious for outstanders to know which led is for what and what the little switch is actually doing there, so - and here it finally comes-sorry about that - so I made a sticker that's going to accommodate both LED's and the miniature switch.
Please let me know if my effort to make it all clear by using this sticker actually worked or not.
This is the sticker (the led's and switch come inside the upper part of the sticker).
Click.
1. I've had a bad glowplug relay, which is difficult to find out because it doesn't always happen due to how the relay works (it's a ring that turns a bit every time to get a fresh contact every time, but that works only one turn). Every time you test the relay, Murphy's law decides that you'll get a good contact and every time you need to start, the same law tells the relay not to make a good contact. This makes you search around for the cold starting problem for a long time before you get the problem.
2. I have a solenoid based battery separator and can disconnect it in an emergency with a switch in the wiring to the ground.
3. I've installed an "emergency start" switch. (and have 1/0 AWG to the 3 house batteries)
Well, what do these things have to do with each other, you probably ask. Well, at first I needed to find a place for an LED-light that's wired to the glowplugs to show me that the relay is actually working (found this idea on a forum), 2nd, I also needed a place for another LED-light that shows me that the batteries are connected by the emergency start switch and 3rd I needed a place for the "cut-off" switch.
I wanted everything to be kind of obvious for outstanders to know which led is for what and what the little switch is actually doing there, so - and here it finally comes-sorry about that - so I made a sticker that's going to accommodate both LED's and the miniature switch.
Please let me know if my effort to make it all clear by using this sticker actually worked or not.
This is the sticker (the led's and switch come inside the upper part of the sticker).
Click.
