My eyes must be getting bad as I age. I looked and thought I saw some rubber grommets in there. Lol!
Show me how you’ve mounted your under hood electrical accessories
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Twin 130ah running 2000w invertor, Winch, Start duties and lighting
I have had my Battleborn 75aH under hood all summer and no issues at all. Works great. Glad I went this route to save cargo space in the back.
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Working on consolidating everything to a Safety Hub 150. Super nice option!
Used black ABS material (surplus from roof rack wind fairing) as base for circuit breakers on the battery clamp and fuse boxes mounted on to the fuse box. Positive and negative cables routed such I can open the fuse box and tilt up engine side.
Still need to finish hooking up the 200 amp relay to the fuse box and then start connecting the accessories, for now the airlift air compressor for the airbags and the pump for the 12gal LRA.
Used 2 AWG wires with engine wire harness tape and battery cable boot covers to make sure no positive to ground contact or risk of the same working under the hood.
The 180am circuit breakers are switchable (on/off) making work downstream of them easy.
Still need to finish hooking up the 200 amp relay to the fuse box and then start connecting the accessories, for now the airlift air compressor for the airbags and the pump for the 12gal LRA.
Used 2 AWG wires with engine wire harness tape and battery cable boot covers to make sure no positive to ground contact or risk of the same working under the hood.
The 180am circuit breakers are switchable (on/off) making work downstream of them easy.
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Some pictures of the build process
@2021 LC200 - this looks really slick, thanks for sharing. How are you affixing the ABS panel(s) to the fuse box and battery tie downs? Are you bolting through the cover and using rubber standoffs or?
Yes, I used short stainless steel "carriage" bolts with a rubber washers between the fuse box cover and ABS plate. Drilled the holes in the corner. While that makes it irreversible, you can replace for a reasonable amount. Note there are a couple different fuse box covers for the various LC200 model years. The battery hold down already had two holes which was enough to tighten it down and create a stable base for the high amp circuit breakers.
1/4 inch thick ABS plate I bought online, used as well for my roof rack and self-made wind fairing. Works great to cut out wind noise.
All loaded up with Tandem Island Sailing Kayak
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@2021 LC200 - thanks!
With all the stuff mounted to the fuse box lid, are you guys able to get into the fuse box on the side of the road?
I ran into this issue yesterday when i was adding additional brake lights.
I have enough slack in my wires to lift straight up and change a fuse. If i want to flip the lid over to the side, i have to disconnect the main positive going to my Safety Hub and that's it...
That's not too bad. I was wondering if you could run the cables in a way that they could all fold together to let the lid slide out of the way...Probably take some serious planning if it could even work.
That Kayak is pretty cool ! Have you had it out on the ocean or in any chop?
Yes, i considered that. I can open it engine side and tilt it up 90 degree by having the positive and negative cables come in by a loop. That is enough space to reach everything without disconnecting. When doing so I have interrupted the power using the 180amp breakers (yellow buttons), just in case.
You get the idea from the picture below.
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Yes it is very neat. Not yet taken out in more wind or chop or on the sea.
I am pretty good sailor though and have taken bigger 40 to 45 ft boats on crossings between Florida and the Bahamas and across the North Sea between the Netherlands and England.
First I want to build up my experience and get feel for this one a little before I do. For now taking the family and grand sons on trips and let them experience sailing.
I am sure I will try one day.
There are certainly plenty of YouTube videos out there with folk doing so. Including trips along the coast like in Australia on the east side all the way up to Queensland.
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My update
