So I assume this aux battery is charged by your new shiny alternator and all your lighting etc is running on its own system via the new relays and boxes above? Like the fact that you don't just bodge and do it properly!
Exactly!
The aux battery is there to serve two purposes, to run the accessories and to form the power bank for the winch.
My idea is to keep the main vehicle wiring separate, upgraded here and there but in the main it needs to remain uncomplicated and reliable.
All accessories are to be powered by the aux battery and fed from the 100A second alternator as a stand alone circuit, it will also serve as backup should a fault ever occur I will be able to switch circuits very easily and just keep trucking.
I had incredibly outlandish ideas of a 200A alternator that I could double up as a welder but it complicated things in terms of mounting and also the spare parts side of things, it would have been an American manufactured unit which could run into trouble if they stop production and there are no spares here in the UK for example, then the mount would have been a custom 1 off, no drama, I could build it but then I'd need to alter it for a different alternator in the future, the route I went with using a kit from Gwyn Lewis was by far the most sensible, uses 100% all genuine LR parts apart from the actual mount that sits on the timing case which means ease of spares from the belt idler to the crank pulley everything can be bought over the counter should I ever have problems in the future.
I would still like an onboard welder but a PTO driven unit would be better and more robust long term but probably never gonna happen
I do try to make a proper job of stuff, not always easy I admit but it makes you feel better knowing you did it right and that there will be no comebacks in the future like a fire from burnt out cables.
It's nice to know that the attention to detail doesn't go unnoticed.
