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Connecting a spare battery up when necessary sounds like a good backup plan, and you have a place to carry it. I see now why you wouldn't necessarily hook up to your battery bank...the spare is outside, and you'd have to run wires inside, and shut the door. Sounds like connecting to the SAE...

Guess I'm confused, but certainly not an expert in electricity. You would keep that auxiliary battery hooked up to the side SAE port all the time? I think that would work, but it would pull juice from that battery when a load was on just like the others. If you hooked it up when things got...

I have a '15 Hawk and originally carried it on a 1/2 ton Chevy. Was at or beyond the capacity of the truck. Don't know what you're going to equip your camper with, but IMO they always end up a lot heavier than you think. Just a casual look at your post and I would say Tundra over Tacoma hands...

Paul, maybe I'm not looking at that pic correctly, but I swear that looks like a normal SAE connector. Follow the red line..one end is female, the other male. In order to have a Zamp adapter (reverse polarity), you have to have both ends of the red wire female, and both ends of the black wire...

Wanted to post this addendum to this voltage thread, as it seems to have 'generated' (groan) a lot of interest. I finally straightened out all my charging issues. My original AGM batteries went bad after about 2.5 years, and I thought it was probably the Zamp controller overcharging them...

Brad, I've seen that video. He's correct in that an adapter will reverse the polarity and fix the problem. Unfortunately, his link for the adapter is bad. Here's the adapter I found on Amazon: Amazon.com The problem with that adapter is it's 18 AWG wire, which is pretty thin for what most...

Rusty...I'm about to drill my holes. Just to be sure - you drilled about 1 1/2" down from the top of the frame (not the top of the popup roof)? Want to make sure I hit the internal crossmember. Lighthawk's pic looks like maybe he drilled about a 1/2" lower than you, but I'm figuring that...

I found these on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y1QYCHJ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=A3NT3RNEWQU9ZI&psc=1 Was tricky finding small quantities of these. They look like the ones in my camper, and they're rated up to 10AWG wire. I'm going to do this, reverse wires from the rear Zamp...

Thanks, Paul and dharte. You guys cleared it up for me. I don't actually have the solar panel in hand, so I've been doing all this in my head, and trying to determine what connectors I need to buy. When I looked at a pic of the panel I'm getting, and its MC4 connectors, I connected them in...

Maybe someone out there can clear up some confusion for me.... Here's my wires coming from the panel, and the plug it's going into: When I check the receptacle with a voltmeter, touching the red probe to the exposed prong on the left, and the black probe to the covered prong on the right...

Hey Paul, I have a question for you....sorry if it sounds like I'm an idiot.....but I used my neighbor's voltmeter to check the polarity of my Zamp rear plug. When I touched the exposed prong on the plug with the red probe, and the shielded prong with the black probe, I got a positive...

Good thing, right? To mix and match different wattages of panels.

Thank you, kluber. Fortunately, the one thing I was up-to-speed on was that Zamp reverses polarity on their connectors. I did check the polarity with a voltmeter just to make sure it was in fact reversed....it was. Going to do exactly what you said, splice the SAE extension I have and reverse...

<p>Thanks, David.&nbsp; I really would like to do this, and I'm OK up to the camper....after the pigtail connector/battery separator, not sure how confident I am.&nbsp; The cabinets are pretty tight, and I can't see too well to trace the wires.&nbsp; I'll take another look at it.</p>

Well, lesson learned.....I should have done some more investigating before assuming my rear plug didn't link to my controller. This a.m. I pulled the controller out of the cabinet, and to my surprise found that the rear plug was wired into the controller, along with the rooftop panel: The...

Some of the sites offering these Y connectors seem to allude to them having a max wattage capacity of 200W, but I have yet to confirm that. Spoke w/someone at Zamp yesterday, and he said as long as the wiring IN THE CAMPER was a thicker gauge, there would be no problem with their brand of Y...

I spoke with someone at FWC yesterday, who seemed a little unsure about his response IMO, and he told me that, as far as he knew, the plug wasn't wired to the controller. I wish I could get a definitive answer without trying to go into the cabinet and trace wires, but I may have to do that...

David, I'm going to try (emphasize 'try' LOL) to do what you did, with my camper. Read the same info in the Sure Power manual regarding using 6 ga wire for 10-20ft distances. The plug I currently have looks like this...

Here's a specific set of questions tiered to my camper's configuration. I have a 2015 Hawk w/a 160W Zamp roof panel. My batteries are two 6V flooded 230ah connected in series. Everything below is based on dry camping with no shore power/truck battery/alternator charging. I've done the...

Thanks, guys. I probably will call Rocky....if the Drivethru won't work with older quick release forks, I need to find out if the mounting holes for both the Driveshaft and the Loball are the same. If so, I can get the Loball for my current bike, and if I upgrade to a thru axle bike in the...

Thanks. Just to clarify.....I could use the rockymounts Driveshaft with my older quick release forks (open-ended forks) and it would secure it fine to the camper? Don't have to worry about the forks popping out on bumpy roads? My neighbor had this setup, and he found it difficult to put the...

Thank you...I have quick release axles on my bikes, so I don't know if I can use the rockymounts system, but I think I can. If my axles aren't thru axles, do the quick release/fork mounts hold the bike securely to the camper, like the thru axle mounts? Can you tell me a little about what you...

I think most of this, as far as #1 thru #4, looks OK (though #3 has me puzzled a little, because when your controller is saying FUL, the charge is below 13V...that's a little low for a float charge), but then your addendum has me thinking that your IOTA is overcharging the batteries once you...

Reason I ask is that my Zamp 'doesn't know when to quit', and never went to float charge w/solar charging.

Rando answered your question, but I'm curious....when you're not on 110V and charging from your solar panel, does your Zamp ever show the same approximate float voltage (~13.6V)?