Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite - View Single Post - Installed VIC-1 in my Deuce.

Snarky · 12-16-2009, 22:13

I think if I was going to do it again, I would probably go with a commercial system for aircraft. The military stuff is cool and OD, but parts are kind of a pain to get together. It took me about 45-60 days to get all the stuff I needed to get this one running. Aircraft systems tend to work on either 12v or 24v, and have more modern better performing components. For what I ended up paying piecing this together, I probably could have got a good aircraft intercom.

Oh well, I'm just happy everything works. I think one of my headsets is only transmitting through one speaker, but considering I have 4 headsets, it's not a big deal, I can probably repair it.

Anyways, I'm trying to figure out a better way to deal with my power being transmitted to both my intercom and inverter. Frankly my constant on live wire kind of scares me, plus I fear maybe one day I'll forget to turn one or the other off and end up with a dead deuce. One of my batteries is not all that healthy according to battery test, so better safe than sorry.

So what I figure is the best way is to probably cut into the 4 gauge wire I have and put a 24v solenoid between my batteries and also a circuit breaker to replace the fuse.

I found these two items:
DC Power Solenoid, 24V, Amps 50 - DC Power Solenoids - Solenoids - Electrical : Grainger Industrial Supply
https://www.firstchoicemarine.com/p-...-40a-1040.aspx

It's not that I don't trust my 30 year old looking M7777A, but... I don't trust it.