Thread: Wiring For Beginners.........

Have a look at my Distribution thread, the system I am looking at is very good quality and used by a number of expedition vehicle manufactures.

Vehicle wiring products supply some good parts VWP. When I wired my old D1 I used one of there fuse boards with a matching relay board. All looked very neat and tidy Something like this modular system would be good..

HTH

Ivan

Over on www.myswag.org there is a pretty comprehensive electrical section that covers alot of camping gear and stuff

There is a bit of bull S#$t that goes on in there but the admin and mods have cleaned most of it up and there is a lot of basic information for beginners, has helped me out quite a bit

Hope that helps

I recently found some new Narva fuse boxes that have a twin inputs and common earths that make it real easy to add a lot of circuits for additional accesories, if you use a relay to feed these you will not overload the original wiring and switches.
I have just added similar to my series 2 and have managed most of it without molesting the original wiring loom.

Marine fuse blocks and distribution gear is great too...

I would suggest giving Mr Drivesafe a call...

I've just about finished the wiring now, I went to these people Springers - Specialists in Solar Panels Brisbane, 12v Caravan, Motorhome, 4wd, Deep cycle batteries who were very helpful and sold me everything I needed. I made some additional roof lockers which also hide all the cables and house the led lights. I'm very pleased with the results

Instead of a main fuse I've used a trip switch, then each switch has it's own fuse behind it. Only thing to do next is connect up for dual batteries and maybe some spotlights on the roof rack.

Hi Jerry and the fuses in the switch panels only protect the wires after the fuse each fuse panel.

Unless the battery is sitting next to or very close to those fuse panels, you still need a “main” fuse, or circuit breaker, at the battery, in the wires running from the battery to the switch panels.