Okay I'm officially starting my project today (putting an isolator in and replacing most of the wiring). I have everything planned except one last thing is sticking in my mind. The person who owned my westy before me installed the aux battery system. They did a terrible job including installing the wrong isolator and then even only istalling that one halfway. It resulted in chronically dead batteries (both of them, even after I replaced both of them) so I need to make sure that everything is hooked up as it needs to be when I replace the wiring. So my question is -- what goes between the alternator and the battery. On those two 12 ga wires that come out of the alternator and in some form end up at the battery, what special connections are there along the way (starter?, etc.)? I truly appeciate all of the help everyone has been offering. Thank You, Danny '81 Westy |
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