I am intending to relocate my origional battery & add a second battery to the port side of my H260. Have not decided between the hanging locker or under the seat in front of the head wall. I have read the information in the archives and have a couple of questions for the people who have already done this modification. 1) How did you route the cables? Up and around under the seats towards the bow? Or back through the aft berth? 2) If through the berth is their a conduit or did you cut holes and use a electrical snake? 3) For those that left the original cable - How did you make your connection between old and new cable? Inside an electrical box?
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Second battery H260
Ed, check this link. I can give you more directly if you contact me directly. I'm in the owners directory. http://kobernus.com/hunter260_web/upgrades/electrical/electrical.html
Ed, check this link. I can give you more directly if you contact me directly. I'm in the owners directory. http://kobernus.com/hunter260_web/upgrades/electrical/electrical.html
Ed
I installed 2 group 31 AGM's under the port seat in front of the head wall. I glassed in a piece of 3/4" plywood for a platform and ran 2" webbing for a hold down. I installed a blue sea 175 amp fuse on the battery and a flush mount battery switch below the seat. I have an inverter installed under the galley so I ran #2 cable inside 1" sanitation hose around through the bilge on top ov the ballast tank to the cabinet under the galley. Sealed both ends with 5200. The shunt for a Link 10 and the inverter lives in the cabinet under the stove. I ran power from there back to the original battery location through the bilge through sanitation hose with #4 wire. I mounted a blue seas dual bus plus connection block and battery charger where the battery used to be. That block ties the electric start, battery, feed for the DC panel, and a 12 volt outlet mounted inside the lazarette together. All connections to this bus have inline fuses except the electric start. Running the cables under the berth is easy, there is enough room to reach under and push/pull the large cables through.
I installed 2 group 31 AGM's under the port seat in front of the head wall. I glassed in a piece of 3/4" plywood for a platform and ran 2" webbing for a hold down. I installed a blue sea 175 amp fuse on the battery and a flush mount battery switch below the seat. I have an inverter installed under the galley so I ran #2 cable inside 1" sanitation hose around through the bilge on top ov the ballast tank to the cabinet under the galley. Sealed both ends with 5200. The shunt for a Link 10 and the inverter lives in the cabinet under the stove. I ran power from there back to the original battery location through the bilge through sanitation hose with #4 wire. I mounted a blue seas dual bus plus connection block and battery charger where the battery used to be. That block ties the electric start, battery, feed for the DC panel, and a 12 volt outlet mounted inside the lazarette together. All connections to this bus have inline fuses except the electric start. Running the cables under the berth is easy, there is enough room to reach under and push/pull the large cables through.
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