Battery wire question
The primary battery that my converter hooks to is under the step to the bed in front t of our truck camper. I have a second battery at the back of the camper about 8 feet from the front battery. The d...
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With ours I put the second battery in the front left corner of the truck bed ahead of the wheel well. I cut a hole in the camper lower side up there and installed a plastic "cable hatch".
I parallel linked the two batteries through the cable hatch so they were close together, and I was able to also pass a wire out to the second battery for the load/charge to its neg post, while the inside battery had the pos load/charge wire.
If they are that close and with low amps (under 20 say) #6 should be fine. With an inverter to run 120v things you will want #4 links even though they will be shorter than now.
When loading the camper, you get it in past the wheel well, then pass the wires so you can still see the second battery, then slide it in all the way. VV unloading.
I parallel linked the two batteries through the cable hatch so they were close together, and I was able to also pass a wire out to the second battery for the load/charge to its neg post, while the inside battery had the pos load/charge wire.
If they are that close and with low amps (under 20 say) #6 should be fine. With an inverter to run 120v things you will want #4 links even though they will be shorter than now.
When loading the camper, you get it in past the wheel well, then pass the wires so you can still see the second battery, then slide it in all the way. VV unloading.
