What the hell is a jigawatt? ~ Marty McFly The Power Audit The first step in designing an electrical system is to figure out how much power you are going to need. This is done by conducting a power audit, wherein you examine, in excruciating detail, every electrical device you intend to run on a…
Category: Electrical
Max Power
The Rig will get power from several sources: A rooftop solar array, shore power or via the alternator when the truck is running. I will also have the option to add a separate generator at a later time, though I don’t anticipate doing that given the size of my solar array. These power sources will…
Get Shorty
While removing the various radio antenna and power cables from the center console the other day I noticed one wire with obvious thermal damage where it screwed into the terminal block. Today I traced that wire and found it was for one of the two 12V outlets on the passenger side of the center console….
Removing Rooftop A/C Unit
I discovered rather late that my truck’s height specification of 9’6″ had been substantially increased to 11′ with the addition of a Coleman-Mach rooftop A/C unit and diamond plate guard. Upon measuring the overhead door height of the garage where I was going to be doing several months of conversion work I determined that I…