Adding far cycle batteries to your camper can sanction you to appropriateness aggrandized appliances.
Batteries cause it practicable to drink in all the virgin conveniences of RV living. If you necessity to add a infrequent amassed components to your RV or you equal yen to support some of the stress on your ongoing course, chew over adding deep-cycle marine batteries to your camper.
Instructions
1. Turn the engine off. Free the hood and remove the consummate battery cable from the camper's battery with a wrench.
2. Pick a point for the batteries. The interior closet floor is a defended and convenient address in most campers.
3. Wire the grounding process. Domicile the short nigrescent denial (-) cable (with the two clamps) from the ground terminal of one battery to the ground terminal of the other. Tighten one of the clamps with a wrench. Push a rubber grommet into the gap to protect the cable from duration intersect on the sharp string. Involve the mounting bolts (that came in the mounting hardware instruments) completed the mounting tabs on the boxes and finished the holes in the floor. Tighten them with a wrench.
4. Mount the isolator switch on the floor beside the battery boxes. Flight self-tapping screws ended the mounting tabs and into the floor with a screwdriver bit installed in a drill Engine. Attach the switch's grounding wire to the camper's chassis with a self-tapping screw running fini the floor and into the chassis.
5. Mount the batteries. Arrange the battery boxes where you appetite them. Lock a drill bit into the drill Engine chuck and drill on ice all of the battery box's mounting tabs and into the camper's floor. Drill another gap beside one of the battery boxes for the battery cable to pass fini. Lope the short ebony cable (with the eyelets on both ends) from the bolt on the batteries loose ground clamp and to the closet floor. Tighten the clamp bolt with a wrench to secure the ground strap to the batteries clamp. Attach the loose eyelet on the other site of the cable to the camper's chassis with a self-tapping screw. Involve a screwdriver bit into the drill Engine and dart the screw tightly into the chassis terminated the floor of the Engine habitation.
6. Wire the batteries' certain cables. Secure the short blood battery cable to the convinced (+) proclaim of one battery and tighten it with the wrench. Fasten the other cusp to the cold (+) publish of the second battery. Tighten the bolt with a wrench. Run a 2 gauge wire from the positive side of one of the new batteries to the isolator switch's "A" (auxiliary) terminal. Tighten it with a wrench.
7. Wire the switch. Run a wire from the isolator's "M" (main) post to the positive post of the vehicle's original battery. Push the wire through the grommet in the hole you drilled in the floor of the vehicle. Run the wire along the camper's chassis to the original battery. Use plastic ties to hold the wire into place along the frame. Using a wire stripper, remove a ½ inch of the cable's coating and crimp a terminal end to each end of the cable. Attach one end of the wire to the positive terminal post on the isolator switch and the other end of the wire on the camper's original battery.
8. Complete the installation by reattaching the vehicle's original battery cable. Tighten the battery cable with a wrench, and close the hood.
