Where does the battery go?

[Deerhunter]

I've been working on my skamper 100s and almost got the ceiling finished. I started cleaning things up and got to wondering where does the battery go, I looked and don't see any place where the wires hook up to the battery so I just thought I would ask you guys for some help here. There don't seem to be enough room in the compartment where the converter is because the water tank and pump is in there.

 

[NCprepper]

We have a 1985 Skamper 080S and I added a battery to the compartment with the water tank, pump and converter. I wanted to keep the weight of the battery as low and forward a possible.

 

[Deerhunter]

Thanks i will try to fit it in there.

 

[brian90744]

for S100 info=

you can contact "crawldit" who has a 86 S100 he should be able to give you info on yours.
Just FYI

 

[crawldit]

The guy that I bought my 100s had some wires run on the outside of the camper. There's a + and - for the camper battery, along with a + run for power directly from the trucks battery. He had them on a toggle switch. I can have it so that the camper runs off my truck while driving, and it charges the camper battery. When I get where I am going I flip the switch and it isolates the truck battery so I am only running on the camper battery. For now I am putting the battery in the bed of the truck since that is where the wiring is. When I get the time I would much rather have the battery inside the camper. Even with the converter, water tank and electric water pump, that compartment is absolutely huge on my 100s. Might be a slight difference in design between the years though. It's tough with these 20+ year old campers, because who knows what the previous owner(s) did to botch things up?