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The main battery should be your primary battery (starting battery). The Auxiliary battery or "house" battery is the one you normally would draw your accessories from. This unit works similarly to mine. It isolated the batteries from each other when the voltage drops. While you are at it, it...

Here, Batteries Plus has a machine to test batteries. Most battery places should as well, such as interstate or auto stores. I would start there. I would consider making the solar setup permanently setup as well. You can always use the extra panel to supplement it if needed. I'm in the process...

I got 2 years out of my first AGM. Symptoms were seemingly excessive charging voltage while driving the vehicle, ie: 14.8+. It gradually increased to over 15volts. It never seemed to charge up fully. I took the battery and had it analyzed, and they said it was not working correctly. I swapped in...

Nice-- that I might be able to make something like that work. Is that Grape Solar? Nice snorkel... I have the same one..

Engel is a very good brand, and very reliable. I've got a 32, as well as a National Luna. There was an excellent review of 12v fridges a while back on this site. Beware of the cheap home depot / walmart ones, as they are very power hungry. Here's the review...

Neat, which panels are you using, how do you like them? That's a neat build. The post mentioned tracker, but it does not have one, does it?

The metal roof part number is in the attachment on my post. PM me for recommended sources to order it. I did replace the roof glass on mine. Is yours cracked in the back, or over the passenger side 2nd row?

I'm still a little fuzzy on the ground. Do I understand you correctly that the earth ground terminal of the inverter should be tied to bare metal inside the cabin with a #4 wire? On the ground, not necessarily bar metal. Most vehicles have ground lugs installed at various locations on the...

Between the controller and battery, ie: the first thing in the line.

If you were going to consider this, you might want to factor in the rear side windows into the plan. Otherwise it seems like you would be riding in a can, and there wouldn't be much benefit. The roof glass comes out as a unit, including the sun roofs, which are integrated. There is a metal...

If you really want to do it nicely, I'd suggest Anderson connectors and crimpers. I sprung for the stuff, and I'm quite happy with it. I just I've been happy with the wire I've been getting from PowerWerx and they'll also build custom cables, reasonably priced. I know it's a struggle when you're...

With regard to the unisolar peel & stick, which indeed look very interesting. Are there any other sizing options and how do they work if one or multiple cells are in the shade. I would love to install something like this, but I want to do it under my roof rack, on the glass roof, and only in a...

Looks interested, but jeeze, another Australian company... I'll wait to hear from you regarding pricing, and you should ask them about AGM batteries as well. Most people ignore that factor, because the charging characteristics are significantly different from a standard Lead Acid Battery. I...

Consider something along these lines for your fridges and accessories, with the separate power runs as 4x4junkie mentioned. Pictured below are two marine power plugs and an Anderson power bar, with 2 usb plugs on it. I hope this helps.

Thanks for the advice. I got it from Traxide directly. Unfortunately he does not do dealers, which seriously impedes growth in my opinion. Anyway, if you are interested I'll get you the fellows e-mail address. It's an extremely popular item in Australia, with caravans and Land Rovers in...

Interesting stuff, I am looking to do more or less the same thing. I have a Traxide system, a house/winch battery. The model is an SC80. As the house battery voltage drops, it isolates it from the primary battery. My main concern is draining the house battery. The Primary battery is an...

I am in the market for an Inverter, to use with non-vehicle solar for example. I've read contradicting statements all over the place. I would note however, that I did notice a substantial number of "factory refurbished" units on the market, which makes me very suspicious of high failure rates. I...

It would be nice to know how all this turned out.

Do you guys have a showroom, or just internet?

I'm running a 2nd battery, I don't have noise issues for the most part. I am quite happy with the installation. I did run 2 separate circuits from the 2nd battery. I have not had a need to install a capacitor, but I did ground everything well, fused positive and negative on both runs, at the...