Ambulance electrical

[chrisquested]

With these ambulance having so many wires would I just rim out all these circut boards, relay, and junk ?

I just want basic wiring such as head lights and stuff as for the outside led off road lights I can re wire that in and also wire in the led interior light?

 

[Abitibi]

Each ambo is wired somewhat differently. On mine I got rid of all the circuits I didn't need, kept the one that had a purpose and re-use some of the components for new gears.

I've kept the HD solenoid, battery charger + isolator and the inverter since they are well built and useful.

You can check what I did in my build although I'm not done yet. It should still give you an idea of what's involved.

Good luck!
Mr. D

 

[Ozrockrat]

Yep they are all different but usually well marked and mostly isolated from the "normal" electrical. I would suggest that you follow the previous posters lead and work out what you need where before stripping it out.

I didn't modify any of the wiring on my last ambo. But this one will be different, I need to free up some space for the solar controllers and 110 and 240 panels. this panel is on the outside of my rig and is at least 3' x 3'.

 

[chrisquested]

yea I will be getting mine this weekend its a 1989 E350 or E450 it has the 7.3 diesel.

Got to figure out how to put a water tank, tankless water heater, 2 propane tanks, solar panels and generator, as for cooking I am going to use a gas/wood drill to bbq. I will keep browsing the side and get ideas.

 

[bdog1]

Man! That's a lot of wiring! But you gotta give it to them, it's clean.


Sent by wing, prayer & ATT

 

[hobietony]

Man, I thought I was getting pretty jiggy with my wiring, that is fantastic!

 

[Ozrockrat]

That is a before photo. Don't expect an after photo

 

[gringorick]

I removed some of the wiring, but left the guts in place in the main control panel. It seemed that every time I removed a wire from one item it affected another needed item. Since I am on a time crunch to get a home built for a February SA departure date, I elected to not open too big of a can of worms. But I bet I could strip 100lbs of copper out of that thing if i really wanted to. I pretty much re-used most abandoned circuits for something else anyway.

Now, if I could only figure out how to get my stock horn working again...

 

[chrisquested]

Wow I removed one trim piece and there was a ton of wires! I am thinking this ambulance has less wires than most of the other one because it's older?