Recent content by MCtree

Cool. This is what I was thinking. But folding over the 10awg to double it up in the splice, since I’ve already ordered the SB120 with a foot of 6awg coming out of it. Thanks. And good to know about the “strain relief.” I keep reading about it and your message has pushed me over the edge...

No need to apologize. I very much appreciate you putting your brain to my questions. I live in fear of doing something wrong here and burning down my Land Cruiser. So the more questions the better. The ecoflow allows me to select the amperage from the 12v source. I think the max is 8 amps. I...

I should have said that the point of the Victron is to increase the voltage into the Ecolflow. It’s a DC to DC converter. It is supposed to increase the voltage of the 12v from my battery to 24v going into the Ecoflow. But, in practice, I have measured 30v at times coming out of it. And...

I thought if I increased the voltage, as that victron does, it reduces the amps. V*A=W. Also, the max amps out of that victron is 15a. My planning was that the 10ga wire would only see 15A. Have I thought about this erroneously?

Thanks for the faith in my potential soldering skills! Maybe I will give it a try. The wire should only see the 40A when I have the Victron connected to the SB120 Anderson plug. When I don’t have the victron connected and have the 10ga wire attached to the SB120, it shouldn’t see more than 15...

I don’t have the tools because, honestly, I’m a bit leery to try my hand at soldering. I feel it’s something I would screw up. As for why I have the SB120… this is a good question. It is, indeed, overkill. I guess I prefer the SB120 to the SB50 because the largest wire I could get on a SB50...

Too bad… I just called Powerwerx to see if they would custom make me a SB120 Anderson plug with 10GA wire coming out of it and they said no. Oh… well, on to plan B!

Though I will also say that I switched from K02’s to the same size (275/70r28) Firestone destinations and my freeway MPG went from 15mpg to 17mpg. The switch from 58lb tires to 51lb tires made a real difference.

Agreed. I get about 9mpg driving around town. Though I have mods that lead to my embarrassing mileage.

Okay. And yeah, it occurred to me that one piece with both positive and negative sides like you describe would be much tidier. I’ll have to keep looking for such an item. And now your question of replacing the victron gives me pause. I wouldn’t mind replacing the victron with the ecoflow...

Good to hear about Powerwerx. I’ve never had a reason to complain about anything I’ve received from them but have never needed to call the for anything off menu. I’ll call them on Tuesday. As for my setup. This is the diagram of my current setup: I didn’t put it in the diagram but I also...

Yeah, I had found that one Anderson to XT60 by Andymark. It doesn’t have the inline fuse I want. But moreover, I’m somewhat leery of putting something into my LC like that by a company that I know nothing about. I’d rather make something myself. But it is tempting. And, oh, wow! I missed...

I’m good with paying more (within some limits) for tidier. After all, this isn’t an essential project - just something I want to do to clean up the wiring a bit. Are you talking about this sort of thing? Because I’m not sure if this is tidier for my use. It would add a kink to the line that...

Ah! I’ve seen these, but wasn’t sure if they were for splicing different sized wires (vs the same size on each end). Would you loctite the screws to keep them in place under the heatshrink?

Ah. Okay. Thanks!