So it was time to start getting the finger out and putting some cables in. I've been doing a fair bit of research on this, and hopefully that will pay off and everything will fall into place.
Also been getting some great help & advise online, in particular a guy called Kedishen on a Transit forum.
I will also be checking with friends to check what I have done is correct, and will still be researching each step before implementing it.
Today I started connecting up the batteries, firstly from the solar controller. I won't be attaching the solar panels till a later date, but any testing of the devices will be able to be done from the leisure batteries.
You may notice that the + and - from the solar controller don't go to the same battery. This is to balance the charge across both batteries, and they are then linked up in parallel to the fuse box.
Then I had to link the 2 leisure batteries together
With the batteries now linked up, they needed to go to the fuse box. The + cable will also be going via a midi link fuse to protect it and through a killswitch which I will disable when the vehicle is not in use.
I need to go out and get a few more copper tube terminals, the ones for the killswitch need to be a bit bigger plus I need a couple more to finish connecting to the fuse box.
Finally, the - terminal was connected to a bare metal part of the chassis for an earth.
Hopefully pick up the other parts I need and then get on with the distribution from the fuse box out to the loads!
Update 15/04/14
Ordered the extra parts I needed to finish this job, and they came really fast from an eBay seller so I managed to get it done today.
Firstly I ordered an inline fuse to go from the Solar Controller to Battery.
And then it was just the extra copper lug terminals to finish it to the fusebox and the killswitch.
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