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Byline: Pip
Well that was obscenely easy. So easy I'm annoyed at myself for not doing this years ago.
The charger (Guest 2611A) and shore power cable arrived yesterday, so today I drove up to the Picaroon to install them. It was a cinch. Basically the procedure can be outlined as follows:
1. Buy charger, adapter, and cable (less than $200 total).
2. Bolt charger to bulkhead somewhere dry (requires drilling four holes, buying bolts, nuts, washers).
3. Hook wires (prewired with ring terminals) onto battery posts, as according to supplied diagram.
4. Plug charger into adapter; adapter into cable; cable into shore power socket.
Yah. That difficult.
Of course, because I am an idiot, I forgot to take the cordless drill, so I couldn't bolt it down, but that turned out to be the most complicated part of the whole project--the only part that requires any tools at all, in fact. I ghetto-rigged it with zip ties for the moment.
Now we have shore power charging the batteries.
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Well that was obscenely easy. So easy I'm annoyed at myself for not doing this years ago.The charger (Guest 2611A) and shore power cable arrived yesterday, so today I drove up to the Picaroon to install them. It was a cinch. Basically the procedure can be outlined as follows:
1. Buy charger, adapter, and cable (less than $200 total).
2. Bolt charger to bulkhead somewhere dry (requires drilling four holes, buying bolts, nuts, washers).
3. Hook wires (prewired with ring terminals) onto battery posts, as according to supplied diagram.
4. Plug charger into adapter; adapter into cable; cable into shore power socket.
Yah. That difficult.
Of course, because I am an idiot, I forgot to take the cordless drill, so I couldn't bolt it down, but that turned out to be the most complicated part of the whole project--the only part that requires any tools at all, in fact. I ghetto-rigged it with zip ties for the moment.
Now we have shore power charging the batteries.
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