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Solarizer system mounting questions

DREDnot

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Im finally getting around to replacing my solargizer system.

The original was "de-milled" by cutting the wires just under the hood and removing the whole harness/box stuff.

Im wondering if anyone has pics of the units as they were installed originally? If there was a standard routing for the wires or mount location for the converter box. Or were they all just cobbled in however they pleased from unit to unit?

I mounted the panel in its original location and have installed a weatherpac connector at the hood hinge area. Now im looking for the original wiring routing path for the hood mounted solar panel and where was the control box usually mounted?

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simp5782

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The control boxes are usually mounted in the battery boxes on all the trucks I have ever seen regardless of their model.
 

M1078MAN

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As many of those i installed in the day..we would scew the box to the battery box. panel in the space by the air cleaner stack on non arm. Arm we made a bracket that attached to the existing a piller armor.

let me look for some pics
 

DREDnot

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The box by the door and run your wires thru the slave port hole into the box.
LOL, I went and looked up under the lip of the box and found the old unit.

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I'm like..."this is too easy". So I mounted it in the same holes. Later, when reinstalling the battery box lid, I feel it rocking on the lip of the cover and top of the control unit.

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Had to drill new holes to move it down a bit.

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Ran the harness along the top of the frame rail secured to the vent lines.

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Weller

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Thanks for posting the photos. My solar controller is mounted in the same box, but I've modified the wiring so I can quick connect/disconnect to a solar panel on the carport/garage roof. It's an extra step, as I have to remember to disconnect before driving, but batteries remain topped off while she is parked out of the sun.
 

Weller

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Yup, sorry for the confusion, I have a small 24v charge controller in the box as well, that way the pulsetech has a power source when parked out of the sun. Seeing the photos inspires me to clean up my battery box.
 
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