My new Manley ORV

[jwilson2598]

Last piece of the puzzle arrived from Amazon today, the NOCO pass through plug. Now I can do shore power/battery charging without having the lid open.

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[balu4k]

Last piece of the puzzle arrived from Amazon today, the NOCO pass through plug. Now I can do shore power/battery charging without having the lid open.

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question. if connected to shore power, does that GFCI oultet gets power directly from the AC circuit or still from the inverter?

thanks

 

[jwilson2598]

question. if connected to shore power, does that GFCI oultet gets power directly from the AC circuit or still from the inverter?

thanks

It will get it from the AC Circuit. I wired the outlet with a plug on the end, so that I can switch it between the inverter and shore power. When on shore power, I just move the plug over to the 3 way plug I put on the end of the NOCO inlet. When on battery, I move it back to inverter. This weekend I didn't need it, so in just following the practice of leaving it unplugged , then hooking it to the appropriate source as needed.

As an aside, I just finished a 3+ day trip (arrived Thursday last morning, left Sunday mid morning) with no power and the battery was able to power my ARB fridge and phone charging easily all weekend. Very happy so far.


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[balu4k]

It will get it from the AC Circuit. I wired the outlet with a plug on the end, so that I can switch it between the inverter and shore power. When on shore power, I just move the plug over to the 3 way plug I put on the end of the NOCO inlet. When on battery, I move it back to inverter. This weekend I didn't need it, so in just following the practice of leaving it unplugged , then hooking it to the appropriate source as needed.

As an aside, I just finished a 3+ day trip (arrived Thursday last morning, left Sunday mid morning) with no power and the battery was able to power my ARB fridge and phone charging easily all weekend. Very happy so far.


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cool. thanks.

I am going with 2 batteries. I just installed the outlets today..

 

[jwilson2598]

Looks great so far. I considered dual batteries, but a free tongue box fell into my lap, so I went with what I had, lol


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[freshlikesushi]

care to share some wiring diagrams?

saw your trailer at the MAOF and loved it

 

[jwilson2598]

care to share some wiring diagrams?

saw your trailer at the MAOF and loved it

Let me see if can sketch something up, it pretty much did it all in my head, so I never really took it down to paper. I'll draw it up later tonight or tomorrow when I'm bored at work, lol.

And your Subaru is awesome, my wife liked the lift, she might have me do hers now.

 

[jwilson2598]

So, as requested, here's the wiring diagram, it's a pretty basic sketch done in Visio. The dotted lines from the AC outlet represent that it can be plugged into the inverter for battery only, off-grid use, or plugged into the 3 way tap for distribution of shore power if at a campground or somewhere else with power available.

 

[balu4k]

So, as requested, here's the wiring diagram, it's a pretty basic sketch done in Visio. The dotted lines from the AC outlet represent that it can be plugged into the inverter for battery only, off-grid use, or plugged into the 3 way tap for distribution of shore power if at a campground or somewhere else with power available.

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Nice one. Pretty much exact the same is what in mind with an exception of having another on/off/kill switch on the dc line to inverter. Reason because i have read in many forums that inverter draws some minimal power even when it is idle. This way i can use the switch on when i want to use the inverter.

 

[jwilson2598]

Nice one. Pretty much exact the same is what in mind with an exception of having another on/off/kill switch on the dc line to inverter. Reason because i have read in many forums that inverter draws some minimal power even when it is idle. This way i can use the switch on when i want to use the inverter.

Didn't realize this about the inverter, maybe I'll make a modification to that to prevent any drain down. Right now I have it plugged in to keep the box charged, so I probably wouldn't notice, but good to keep in mind. It did spark a bit on hookup, so it's drawing something.

 

[jwilson2598]

Finally got around to doing a small project I've had parts to do since last fall. Step one was to add a couple more sockets to the tongue box:

One of them is to power the water pump for my water heater/shower system. It originally ran on its own battery pack, but now it can share with all the other stuff and means less battery I have carry around. The other plug was for some LED's to give me light inside the tent:

I ran the wires down the frame, and then added a switch and disconnect, so that the harness that goes to the tongue box can be removed instead of balled up inside the tent:

Should be plenty bright, I was too lazy to wait around for dark and see how it was, but based on others I've seen it'll be fine.

 

[jwilson2598]

Forgot to add from back in the fall, after seeing some other setups and talking to others including Mario from Adventure Trailers, I decided to add the electric brakes to mine. The Jeep could stop it pretty well before, but it's even batter with the brakes on the trailer, and it adds some other uses for pivoting during reverse and more control off road. Sadly Manley ORV didn't order their axles with the brake flanges, so I was going to need those welded on. I called around and it turned out by the time I added the flanges, drums, and brakes, it was about the same as buying an entire new Dexter axle with all brakes pre installed and wired. I only got one boring shot during install:

I also added a Prodigy P2 controller to run the brakes, mounted on the lower driver side of the dash.

 

[RubiDon]

Nice setup, what wheel spacers are those?

 

[tgreening]

A little OT, but did that company ever sell? Last I knew they stopped production and it was up for sale. Kind of a bummer because turns out they were in my backyard. Looked like nice stuff.

 

[highlandercj-7]

Where did you get your wheel adapters? Do you know if the stock JK 17" alloys will fit with them? I need to order a pair for my next trailer build.

Also I can verify that the inverter does draw a battery dead. I put my Inverter on my deep cycle and even when nothing is on it drawled the battery dead.