Thread: Yet another wiring question!!

Originally Posted by donh54

Thanks for the input, Discomick.

I'm leaning towards making a star plug like Tim's one above for the solar hookup, and using it at the connection between trailer and tow car. Saves adding extra plugs, joins, junctions etc, with the resulting voltage drops. There to the trailer battery is less than a 3 metre cable run, and about 4 metres to the aux battery in the car , all with 6BS cable.

I'll give the dc to dc charger a miss. Seen a lot of people waste a lot of money on them. For the amount of power we use, even without the solar panel, we get quite a few days before we need to top up batteries. Biggest load we have on it is a 35 litre Weaco fridge, which gets opened once a day, and a 14 litre one for drinks.

My power saving methods have been described as crude, but effective. For example, taking beer out of the fridge a six pack at a time, and drinking the last one before it gets too hot.

Thanks again to all for their input

How big is your solar? If you are going to try to charge two or even three batteries simultaneously you would need some big panels, at least 200 watts I'd think, to achieve a decent recharge.
Re. beer, I just put one or two in the fridge and replace them each time, so I'm only cooling 1-2 at a time. Or drink red wine, which doesn't need cooling.

195 watts (3 x 65 Watt panels)

When I was a lad, we used to drink our beer "Kimberley Cool" which meant it was cool enough not to burn your hand!