More time devoted to the IBBS aux battery—this time most of it focused on wiring. The installation requires fabrication of a wire bundle, and connects to the battery via a 9-pin connector. Wiring is loathed by some builders, but I’m finding it to be fairly enjoyable. Although the process of cutting, stripping and crimping is somewhat tedious, the overall experience has been positive…and negative. Plus, this is what is going to bring the whole project to life in a couple of weeks…months…and I’m looking forward to seeing everything up and running.
The wiring of the aux battery is fairly straight forward—one lead off the main bus, another to the panel switch, a couple of leads to ground, and four leads to power selected components (one of which is a low voltage indication on the G3X). The challenging part is that each wire goes in a different direction almost immediately after the connector. This means breaking open wire bundles to accommodate each wire…which means basically undoing everything previously done. Hand me the zip ties…
