Newman39Fan wrote:So I plan on placing my battery in a tongue box. Therefore I would have to drill a hole in the back of the box and run the wires under the TD to the galley. Like most I would use a small conduit or PVC pipe placed in a hole drilled in the floor to run the wires up to my electrical area. Well I was thinking today, usually not a good thing, that if I am going to have a pipe in the galley and a pipe in the tongue box, why not just connect everything and run a pipe down the length of the trailer to hold the wires?
My AC side of life will be very simple, a circuit breaker and CGFI protected power strip which will be attached to an extension cord that will run back up under the TD to the tongue box. From there it will be pulled out and plugged into a generator or shore power. So I could use the same pipe with the DC wires running one way and the extension cord running the other way. I was thinking of just using some good zip ties to hold it to the cross members it passes under
Is there anything wrong with this idea? I think it would protect the wires more and eliminate the open hole of the pipe on the floor of the galley helping prevent an opening that critters might use to get in
Your thoughts?
SmilinJack wrote:Don't use wire ties. They will eventually break. I did that on a small utility trailer and was constantly having to get under it and replace the wire ties. The box stores sell metal "C" type clamps (can't think of the name of it) that has a hole in it that you screw to wood to hold conduit. I'd use those...
Newman39Fan wrote:This now makes no sense to me. With the small space of a TD, I can not imagine not running AC and DC wires next to each other. In the Gen Ben plans, and I have seen a lot of people use this, there is a raceway for all of the wires - AC and DC all mixed. So if this has not caused a problem for all of the TD's on the road, how will running an extension cord in the same tube as the Battery wires cause this big of an issue?
Looneytoons wrote:I knew I had read a thread on this subject. I finally found it. Click here to read it.
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