Seat Base Electric + EHU + Solar Install + Charger + DC-DC -- How We Done it --

[Skyliner33]

Does depends what capacity your Blue Sea fuse is, whether direct or via the mega/maxi fuse board as either way there's a chance you're going to be pulling 200A through the Blue Sea fuse for the inverter with any other 12V loads running from the remaining 50A capacity so it would be possible to blow the two big fuses in cascade.
In the real world I've never blown anything larger than 80A fuses but they were the glass tube type, ok for car audio back in the day but not modern manly loads!

I was planning on a 250A blue sea fuse and 75mm2 cable. I suppose I could update the blue sea fuse to 300A (and cable if needed) then use the 250A mega fuse to the inverter, leaving 100A for my other loads.

I was thinking of swapping the power to my amp from the starter battery to the leisure. That’s 2x25A fuses, so I might not bother. Need to have a think about which way is best.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Hi all,

To everyone who has mounted their inverters to the fridge panel behind the drivers seat.

Are you at all concernered about spillages from the hob / worktop going over the side and into the fan /housing?

I have a renogy 2kw hf charger inverter on order. I had planned to do much the same thing.

But I wondered if it would be worth cutting out a small price of the worktop to make a ‘lip’ above the device to protect from spills, or whether this would be a bad idea due to restricted airflow.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[Stay Frosty]

If you get that on the side of your fridge housing the drivers seat will be stuck up against the dashboard.
I've got the basics flat 2kw inverter and that's still about 50mm deep so I recessed the footprint of that device into the side of the fridge housing by 18mm to maintain some drivers seat adjustment, I'm a shorty at 5'6" so not really needed but 6' plus drivers would.
That chunky inverter charger would need to go in a cupboard void, wardrobe or under the bed.
As for the question of spilling stuff from the worktop onto the inverter that hasn't happened as you would be bathing the drivers seat in gravy too but a piece of plastic stuck on the worktop edge or fridge housing side with blutak could form an upstand to protect both?

 

[Captain Awesome]

Understood,
(Nothing worse than beans on your drivers seat)

I have a couple of other cupboard locations picked out as backup options.

And from some photos i've seen that cavity does like it might be sufficiently big enough, given the sloping back of the seat.

The box is 120mm depth, and that top drawer in the photo is 170mm depth. and a similar width.

I will give it a try and let you know where it ended up in the end....