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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 19559  
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I would get rid of the spurs, fit additional BlueSea fuses boxes.
With a master feed, fused in-line direct from battery. MIDI fuse boxes etc are ideal for this. Then use indiculdual feeds for what you want, if you share circuits you'll have an awful job finding any issue if you have a fault. And also often or not higher fused than what it really should be. Use a spur if you need to just to pick up you ignition live if you need one. Earth is common but you can get bus bars and the BlueSea fuse boxes have live bus bars and plent of options to suit. It will, be safe, easily identifiable and neat. Fit and forget. 4x4 Overlander has plenty of ideas.  Diesel$ Live$ Matter. ⛽️🛢️👨🔧🧰⚙️ RED, WHITE & BOOST! 🇬🇧 |
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5th Jan 2018 6:40pm |
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| zsd-puma Member Since: 09 Aug 2016 Location: Kent Posts: 2720 
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Piggyback fuse holders are great for adding one or two extra accessories that you intend to remove when you sell the vehicle. But realistically once you have more than a couple they just look a mess.
If you do have more than a couple, You'd be better off fitting another fuse box under the drivers seat and running your additional wires from there. Depending on your vehicle's spec you might already have spare fuse slots in the existing fuse box, you can just add the terminals into the back of the factory fuse box and it'll look factory fitted. Vehicle Wiring Products or Autosparks sell the bits you need. |
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5th Jan 2018 6:41pm |
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| dioliahary Member Since: 18 Jan 2015 Location: Manchester Posts: 668 
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For my heated seats, I took a hard fused positive from the battery to a mini fuse box, this wiring then fed the heated seats (all fused) via a set of relays. I wired in a 'master' relay which is affected when ignition on, that controls the whole set up.
I will try and take some pictures, the relays and mini fuse box, I located in the battery box area. Hope this makes sense and helps somewhat |
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5th Jan 2018 6:44pm |
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| donmacn Member Since: 07 Nov 2017 Location: Nth Scotland Posts: 1829 |
I'm in a similar position to the OP in that I'm planning a tidy up of existing accessories, and adding more, so picutres a,ways welcome!
Linked from here the other day, I spent some time looking through the flickr feed/blog of Landreiziger (pretty sure it was flickr) and they had loads of pics of similar electrical installations. Usually twin battery installs, but some tidy work. FWIW - hope it's not too much of a hijack of the thread - if anyone's familiar with their work, is there anyone on this side of the channel, or ideally even north of Hadrian's Wall doing this kind of stuff? Donald 1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong (The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html ) 2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8 in the past.. RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi 1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box 1993 Discovery 300Tdi not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper... |
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5th Jan 2018 6:49pm |
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