Outfitting my Grenadier Trialmaster

[Ragman]

I have just come across this thread and have enjoyed it. You have put up some very helpful information and I am salivating over ordering the quick connects for the rear seat as I had not seen them before.

Thanks and hope to see you on the trail one of these days.

 

[jscherb]

When we're on a long trip or expedition my wife likes to bring her own food, she often cooks it at home and stores it in the fridge in the Grenadier then heats it up with an electric pot. The pot has two settings, one of which is within the range of the Grenadier's factory inverter and but the pot's high setting (600 watts) is above the capacity of the factory inverter. She says the lower setting works fast enough for her but I'm thinking about providing for a higher power inverter for her. I've got a 750-watt modified sine wave inverter I've used in the Jeeps for a few years and it works very well for her cooking and electric blanket purposes (having grown up in a hot place she's often cold). In the Jeeps I installed a connection to the auxiliary battery with an Anderson connector so the inverter could be used as needed in either Jeep.



I'm thinking of installing a bulkhead-type Anderson connector in the side panel in the Grenadier's cargo area and wiring it to the Grenadier's main battery through a circuit breaker and maybe a 15a fuse on the output. Something like this:



BTW the receptacle for the factory inverter can be seen on the floor, I plugged in a short extension cord with a flat plug so it's accessible with the Jack Compartment Bag in place and the flat plug takes up no space in the bag.

I would mount the inverter on the side of the kitchen housing.



The kitchen lives in the garage and gets installed in the Grenadier as needed (it installs very quickly on the L-tracks in the floor) so it's out of the vehicle now but the inverter would fit nicely on the side of the kitchen housing, just behind the kitchen's power panel.

 

[14JKURX]

When we're on a long trip or expedition my wife likes to bring her own food, she often cooks it at home and stores it in the fridge in the Grenadier then heats it up with an electric pot. The pot has two settings, one of which is within the range of the Grenadier's factory inverter and but the pot's high setting (600 watts) is above the capacity of the factory inverter. She says the lower setting works fast enough for her but I'm thinking about providing for a higher power inverter for her. I've got a 750-watt modified sine wave inverter I've used in the Jeeps for a few years and it works very well for her cooking and electric blanket purposes (having grown up in a hot place she's often cold). In the Jeeps I installed a connection to the auxiliary battery with an Anderson connector so the inverter could be used as needed in either Jeep.

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I'm thinking of installing a bulkhead-type Anderson connector in the side panel in the Grenadier's cargo area and wiring it to the Grenadier's main battery through a 15-amp circuit breaker. Something like this:

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BTW the receptacle for the factory inverter can be seen on the floor, I plugged in a short extension cord with a flat plug so it's accessible with the Jack Compartment Bag in place and the flat plug takes up no space in the bag.

I would mount the inverter on the side of the kitchen housing.

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The kitchen lives in the garage and gets installed in the Grenadier as needed (it installs very quickly on the L-tracks in the floor) so it's out of the vehicle now but the inverter would fit nicely on the side of the kitchen housing, just behind the kitchen's power panel.

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Would you mind sharing some information about the cooking pot please.

 

[jscherb]

Would you mind sharing some information about the cooking pot please.

Sure. She found it on Amazon, it's got two settings - 250w and 600w. It's got a non-stick inside and a glass lid. The label on the bottom says 1.5L capacity. A search on Amazon for "Dezin electric pot" should find it. That's all I know about it.

 

[eddarr]

I dont know if you got the autel scanner to work with the TPMS but my understanding is that the "WF" model will not work. The is a function that was in the previous model but not in the WF.

 

[jscherb]

I dont know if you got the autel scanner to work with the TPMS but my understanding is that the "WF" model will not work. The is a function that was in the previous model but not in the WF.

It's working as far as I need it to for now - I'm able to manually read the factory sensors and I'm able to program an Autel sensor with the ID of a factory sensor. That enables me to have a second spare that if I need to I can program it with the ID of the damaged tire it's replacing.

I was unable to use the OBD interface to talk to the Grenadier, which is what you're referring to. I have a question into Autel support about that but even if the answer is no, the WF model does do what I need. When/if I hear back from Autel, I will post their reply here.

I don't need it to do any more than I've described above. Since the dealer rotates the tires each service and they deal with the Grenadier's ECU during the rotation, I don't need to worry about that, I only care about being able to program a second spare and have the Grenadier recognize it.