The new twin compressor comes with a pretty lengthy harness. If you use a power distribution block as we did, you would want a minimum of a 6 gauge wire. We used 4 gauge because the of the fridge, and other outlets plus we may be playing with a solar power system during the overland rally.
Next week is bad. A few of us will be out of the office for the NW Overland Rally and we will have visitors from Australia.
After next week, no problem.
Thanks, then maybe a few weeks out I will stop by after work.
That is great the compressor comes with a harness, maybe if it is long enough, I can run it from the rear there up to the aux. battery.
If not,
I have power distribution blocks left over from the old rig too.
My generic wire gauge vs amps chart shows 4ga good for a 25 foot run @ 50 amps....
Make sure you ground it to the chassis and not the body as the ground wires between the body and chassis probably aren't sufficient for this application. That, and, most if not all of the "important" electrical things such as engine ECU, lighting etc are grounded through the body and you want to keep the aux loads pretty well isolated from them.... Esp in my 2011 FJ where there is a lot of "can bus" systems running around using only 5ish volts. It doesn't take much to piss them off......
YMMV RON
Thanks Ron for the tip on going directly to chassis instead of somewhere in the rig.
You can see in the pic above I used the small distribution block as a ground only for my two RF amps in the old rig, and grounding to the sheet metal under the seats was sufficient for that rig, but best to follow your method in the FJ.
The ARB 4Runner is looking great.
I am sure I will see you guy's tooling around town in the mornings in it sometime, I often see the badged rigs when I am going from KB Boeing back to the Longacres site I am based out of which is near you.
Are you guy's going to do a wrap on this rig like the silver FJ Cruiser you use to have, and I believe a red H3 was badged too?
I use to see the H3 on my between job sites, but have not seen it in quite awhile.
Never have seen the Jeep that is wrapped in OME until I stopped by last week to get the catalogs.
