Electrical Where to connect aux 12v with the Drifter

achjimmy

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Okay no spare points on the back of the drifter. My two options for the heater are either piggy back with another circuit or I am thinking of running a bit of 3mm auto of the lighting circuit to a relay. Then I can run circuits as I please off the battery ?
 

achjimmy

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What brand of gas heater are you fitting Jim? Gas rather than diesel?
Bill

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Bought a truma same as you had. I really didn't want to go carrying another fuel source and with the cruiser I tend to stop at truck bowsers and I could envisage the headaches trying to fill a ten litre diesel tank with a 500litre pm truck bowser !
 

Billrw136

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Sorry Bill missed your reply. Seems the forums alert system picks and chooses what it wants to alert you too!

Bought a truma same as you had. I really didn't want to go carrying another fuel source and with the cruiser I tend to stop at truck bowsers and I could envisage the headaches trying to fill a ten litre diesel tank with a 500litre pm truck bowser !
No problem Jim!
 

achjimmy

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I used a bit of jayco beige wiring and piggy backed it into one of the setecs lighting circuits so at a glance looks all factory. I even used the same translucent yellow spade connectors Jayco use on everything (and I mean everything) and fed the wire around the corner to the battery compartment and conected to a 12v auto relay. I will use this to switch a small fuse box and feed the heater.

But Iam not happy with the relay, the first one was a cheap Jaycar part and it got overly warm. I have swapped that out for another I had and it's better but there's a lot of temp in them and they will be on all the time! Wonder whether a Narva one at 5 times the price will be better or it's just 5 times the price cause it's Narva?

Does anybody know of any other quality relays avaiable? Somebody on fleabay is selling bags of 5 genuine Mazda ones!
 

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@achjimmy I used one of these big suckers for my fridge relay so I could use current happy terminal lugs instead of the teensy weeny spade connectors .... I think you'd struggle to over heat this 200amp thumper

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