Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:21:45 -0400
Reply-To: Jason Ellsmere <j@BEAUS.CA>
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From: Jason Ellsmere <j@BEAUS.CA>
Subject: Re: Fiamma and Aux Battery Kits, in Canada
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Awesome advice, thanks. Why did you choose to go with the Yandina instead of what gowesty uses?
Where did you get the USB and 12v plug boxes?
I have been back and forth on the bus depot awning. Concerned about taking up room inside the bus and laziness taking over and not setting it up on 1 night trips (which there will be a lot of).
Are you in Ontario?
Jason
On 2013-07-11, at 5:41 PM, Andrew Graydon <andrew@graydons.ca> wrote:
> Hi Jason, I just went through this last year, and a friend of mine with a Synchro is currently doing it, on the awnings and there is no reseller I could find of Fiamma in Canada. There are many dealers for Dometic awnings however and on first glance they seem to be OK.
>
> I went with the BusDepot Ezy-Awning (Plus Size) and love it so much I'm getting delivery of the front and side walls tomorrow !
>
> As to the Aux Battery kit, I just put an Aux Battery in my '82 Diesel and between this list and many other sources put it together very easily without any kits. I went with;
>
> Components
> * 38ah AGM battery (similar to Werker battery)
> * 4 gauge wire from starting battery (on a diesel this is in the engine compartment) to battery junction box behind/under drivers seat.
> * Yandina C100 from the battery junction box behind/under drivers seat to the aux battery positive.
> * 2/6/12A Battery Charger directly to aux battery and plugged in under the sink in the spare 110V socket
> * 200W Inverter to aux battery
> * Aux battery to aux fuse panel
> * Aux Fuse panel to 12V accessories (4xUSB connector box by passangers, light over counter, 4xcigarette lighter/2xUSB on dash)
> * Wire from 87 on fridge relay to fuse panel (camper panel and faucet)
> * Wire traced back under carpet to radio and original cigarette lighter on dash) (Had to do this as the original fuses for these were joined on other driving circuits)
>
> This has been working nicely for me and I was able to get everything here between Princess Auto (welding cable is 4 gauge) with just the Yandina coming from the US.
>
> The setup is very nice with the aux battery being charged when the alternator is running, and the starting battery charging when it's plugged in to shore power.
>
> Only changing that one wire on the original relay means that I have 12V power to the fridge when the alternator is running, but not when I'm parked so it doesn't drain the aux battery. However, the light, camper panel and faucet work off the aux battery so I can actually use them when stopped !
>
> I have extra room on the aux fuse panel as things change and can always upgrade the inverter if I need more power when stopped.
>
>
> Andrew
>
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>
> Andrew Graydon
> Mail : andrew@graydons.ca
>
>
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