Stepping into the TearDrop void

[trailtroll]

When setting up a 12v lighting system, do I need to earth each item I install, or can i just run the positive and negative wires to each item, and use the + & ~ poles on the battery?

[Sheddie]

Just run twin core wire from the lights back to your fuse box. I have a fuse box under the galley bench with a heavy wire going from that to battery +, and a common terminal for the earth side with heavy wire from there to battery -.

[dales133]

Yea I've done pretty much the same thing.
I have a negative buss bar separate to the fuse box (some fuse box's have negative and positives buss are included and even switches).
You can run more than one fuse box depending on how much you want to connect .

[trailtroll]

I have been quite lately, been on holiday to the batch in Coromandel, now I am back working on the teardrop, just waiting for the Bamboo Ply to be delivered so I can line the inside, then the outside liners & Roof can be glued and screwed in place.

[Sheddie]

Snap! We just had last weekend touring around Coromandel with our teardrop.

[trailtroll]

Where on the Coromandel were you slinking away too?

[Sheddie]

We had three nights away, one in Miranda, then Shelley Beach just out of Coromandel township, and at Cooks Beach.

[dales133]

Did you find my swimming hole?

[trailtroll]

We were in Coromandel town-ship it's self, Maggie's family have land there. That is where our batch is.

[Sheddie]

Did you find my swimming hole?

Didn't really have time to look, and the weather wasn't all that encouraging for swimming, except in the hot pools at Miranda. The hill across the road from the camp is still covered with bush, but there are driveways going up to private residences hidden in the bush.

[dales133]

Grŕrrrr nothings sacred anymore

[trailtroll]

Frank, you went past our bach on your way to Shelley beach, we are opposite the road to the stamper battery at the top end of town.

[Sheddie]

I remember seeing the sign for the stamping batter.

[dales133]

I've been there a bunch of times as a kidlit

[trailtroll]

Today, 5th May, I have done the internal lining, Bamboo Ply, and the outside insulation, next will be the wiring, until I save up enough to purchase the outside cladding.