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Old 04-30-2011, 01:35 PM   #8
wa8yxm
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I would go with the batteries or disconnect switch before I'd connect to the converter.

Now, what I did: IN my coach the converter is in the back, Driver's side, as far from the entry steps as you can get... The bateries are under the steps, the power runs up under the "Hood" (This is front engine gasser) and then back to both a fuse block about 25 feet back and the converter 35 feet back give or take a foot.

This is wire capable of hauling 80 amps with minimum loss.

I "Tapped" a spare slot on the fuse block, being as the radio is ... About 3-4 feet outside-wall wards of the fuse block, zero feet in front or back of it.

Almost got away without extending the radio's suppied power cord (Added about a foot)
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