Anderson Plug

Cellery · Member

Anderson Plug

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

welcome to GN, I am not an electrition but I am sure somebody here will be able to help, have you looked here

http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t18239354/anderson-plug/

blaze · Guru

It may well be easier to run a twin core 50 amp wire to the house battery from a new anderson plug on the drawbar. What I did with mine was isolate the 12 volt wire from the plug before it goes into the van ( mine was at a juntion at the rear of the draw bar) and then take this wire to the ouse battery, ( if I didnt do this I lost all my 12 volt accessories as the van didnt come with a ouse battery). Then I run the 50 amp wire and anderson plug to my vehicle. This will most likely be as clear as mud for you
cheers
blaze

Cellery · Member

Hi Wombat and Blaze.
Thank you for the info, I will have a go
Regards
CE

PeterD · Guru

50 A cable is only contains 6 square mm of copper. The current rating is just the current required to heat up the wire, you don't want your wire heated up when you are charging your battery (waste of power.) I suggest you require much heavier cable, say at least 4 or6 gauge wire (21 squ mm or 13 squ mm.) You will need this weight of wire the whole way from your alternator to your vans battery.

Even that will not provide an efficient charge to your vans battery. If you are a heavy user of your vans battery (you have a car fridge or camp for more more than a couple of nights off power) you should consider a battery booster as well.

Cellery · Member

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the info. I have brought 8mm wire (same size as what is in the 4by) and will give it a go this weekend.

Regards

Chris

Boothie · Senior Member

Best answer I can give, if your existing wiring wired and provided to the van by the van provider works and does not melt, then you don't have to have an issue with the provider. If you put the wiring in yourself and the wiring melts or burns something out then you have no recourse. If it burns out after some person who is qualified puts it in, then it is an issue with that provider.

My answer is pay the man to do it, make sure he has that paper up on the wall, get the piece of paper that says he did it and make sure the bastard is certified.

Sorry, but as soon as the smoke comes out of the wire, that means trouble!

blaze · Guru

Boothie wrote:
Best answer I can give, if your existing wiring wired and provided to the van by the van provider works and does not melt, then you don't have to have an issue with the provider. If you put the wiring in yourself and the wiring melts or burns something out then you have no recourse. If it burns out after some person who is qualified puts it in, then it is an issue with that provider.
My answer is pay the man to do it, make sure he has that paper up on the wall, get the piece of paper that says he did it and make sure the bastard is certified.
Sorry, but as soon as the smoke comes out of the wire, that means trouble!

seen a lot of bits of paper on walls, 90% I dont trust coming from someone that could display bits of paper from totally different fields

cheers

blaze