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#1 craig333

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Posted 26 November 2014 - 11:09 PM

I've been meaning to either upgrade to a single larger gauge wire from the truck to the camper or just parallel another wire on back. Since I had smaller gauge wire I went with that. Rather than run it alongside the original wiring I decided to run it on the passenger side and since the truck has dual batteries that'd be pretty easy. So I did. I ran a hot and a ground both fused on each end. Overkill but I'll never have to worry about a short. Ran all the chafe points through a length of hose. I was happy, all was well and good. 

 

As I was cleaning up and putting away all my tools it suddenly dawned on me. I hadn't put in a disconnect at the camper /doh. I'll just have to do that later the next time I take off the camper. Assuming of course years from now I don't completely forget! I'll also have to remember if I ever need to isolate the truck or the camper for some reason.

 

Btw, it still runs through the switch if don't want it connected to the truck.


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Posted 27 November 2014 - 12:11 AM

Just a warning about running parallel circuits. Not really a good idea especially if as you did the wire lengths are not the same.

It will work but not the optimum solution.

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Posted 27 November 2014 - 02:47 PM

I'm not aware of any nuances with dissimilar length paralleled hot wires, but the same in ground wires is effectively a ground loop. Power currents won't care, but anything electronic may not like it at all.

https://en.wikipedia...p_(electricity)


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Posted 28 November 2014 - 06:25 PM

I have to admit much of that went right over my head. I took all my electronic equipment out to the camper, everything seems quite happy so I don't think that applies in my situation. My hot wire is only a couple feet shorter than the original, I doubt thats significant either.


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Posted 29 November 2014 - 02:37 PM

Mine too if you're talking about the link. Posted it in case you were interested in knowing more about the phenomenon. Oh gawd, "phenomenon"....

sorry about that......


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Posted 29 November 2014 - 04:39 PM

Don't be sorry, you can link to Sandra Bullock any time you like!


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