I spent all weekend cleaning up some wiring and adding a few features to make our MH more personal to us.
I added five switches to the instrument panel
BLINK – On those rare occurrences when I actually pass a truck on the freeway, they will generally blink their headlights to let me know its OK to pull back in to the lane. a “Thanks” is generally acknowledged by blinking my tail lights.This is a momentary switch that blinks the tail lights.
I added a circuit to blink the tail lights, regardless if they are already on or off. just press the momentary switch and it turn them ON or OFF depending if they are OFF or ON.
HEADLIGHT – On the Ford F53 chassis, the Daytime Running lights are on all the time. even when sitting idle in park. I HATE THIS. This switch disables the headlights and DRLs, turns them OFF if they were ON.
A/C – I don’t like the A/C compressor running just because I selected a mode on the climate control. I also think Evans TempCon has an error in their controller, it turns on the compressor when “VENT” is selected.
Anyway, this switch controls the A/C compressor any time the truck climat control is turned ON, regardless of mode (A/C, Vent, defrost, floor, etc, )
CHARGE – Enables the ability to charge the truck battery when the coach has shore power or generator power. If this switch is ON and there is 110 volts on the coach, the truck battery is tied to the coach battery thru it own relay, it does not use the isolator solenoid for this function.
INVERTER – Even though my MH has a generator, I don’t want to run it just to charge a cell phone or laptop while on the road. I installed a small 400 watt inverter, this switch controls the 12 volts that supplies that inverter.
I’ll write these up separately and include the electrical drawings as soon as I clean them up.
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Photos:
Instrument Panel BEFORE
Instrument Panel AFTER
Center TV
I also replaced a couple of the truck heater vents ( I love the new ones) and am installing a 12 volt TV in the front to replace the 120 volt TV.