Bluesea Fuse Box - Negative bus bar, or not?

[ben5560]

I am going to place a 12 way Blue Sea Systems Fuse box behind my furniture, fed from a 16mm live flex cable. Is it better to buy one with the negative bus bar built in, or a waste of money considering the other option is just to run the negative 12v cables from each device to the nearby ground point in the rear of the van, and the negative from the blue sea box pictured below, would have to go there anyway?

 

[Dellmassive]

You can use either.

I personally used the one picture above with the included negative busbar.

I then run the appropriately sized two core flat cable out to all the devices.

That way it kept all of that connections and fuses in one place...

I've got a couple of those one is under the driver's seat and the second one is behind the fridge.

 

[ben5560]

Thanks, thought that would be best. Did you run the main negative back to the leisure battery area, or just to ground nearby?

 

[Dellmassive]

No I run the negative direct to a chassis point right next to the fuse box.

 

[Dellmassive]

See here ..

Post in thread 'Dellmassive`s Camper Van Adventure'

20 Jul 2025

100/50 Victron MPPT upgrade. . .


fridge out - again.

out with the 100/20




and in with the new 100/50 . . .






needed a 50A feed back to the LB, so I've piggy backed onto the SUB fusebox supply.


and ordered a couple of mini busbars to tidy up the connections.






............


but for now we have the 100/50, only problem is the battery is full, so unable to test yet.


I've switched off charging from the MPPT & DC-DC to try and drop that battery some SOC - and then hope for some sun.

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[ben5560]

Thanks mate i will have a read, really helpful as always!