Simple Electrical advice Needed
Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 07, 2004 at 14:12
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Member - Jack
Hi folks ...
As you will soon see, I am no auto electrician.
I have a 2 pin marine fitting professionally installed to run my Engel car fridge, which works
well. It is connected to my second battery in my 80 Series Landcruiser. I would now like to fit a 12v plug next to it. This is a job I can handle, but I have no idea on wiring things in parallel or series (whatever that may mean).
Can I position the 12v plug next to the marine plug and just run my wire "postive to postive and negative to negative" from the marine plug. I will be using it to power my laptop and possibly recharging my battery powered spotlight. It is a convenience thing.
Many thanks ... especially as an auto electrician wanted $90 to do this, and I have the wire and the plug!
Safe travels
JackNo trees were harmed in the making or sending of this message.
However a great number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Reply By: Mark - Wednesday, Jan 07, 2004 at 15:21
Wednesday, Jan 07, 2004 at 15:21
Wiring red to red and black to black is correct from the original 2 pin plug .
I assume the original 2 pin plug is already fused where it connects to the battery, so there is no need to add another fuse in the circuit (but make sure there is a fuse on the original 2 pin socket, if not, get one installed).
As for spiking, its not really too much of a worry on a laptop as the 12V actually charges the laptop battery and the battery runs the laptop. Thus the battery acts as a surge protector for the laptop.
Cheers
Mark
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