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Can anyone say "STOKED!" ? I can...
That saves me a few dents in the wallet from the pre-thought of having to actually use 1.00" fittings and conduit and actually having to run two at that. Just in conduit alone I'm saving more than $18 per run, almost $54 in fittings and connectors, and a heck of a lot of grief which is near priceless in my book.
First mistake, I know right... Not properly identifying ALL needed aspects of the stake pocket in the bed. Which means great I had a pre-existing hole I thought I could use but with no real way to modify, at least what I wanted to do AND the space available was even more shallow than what I needed. So the okay news is I milled out the 0.875 lip that existed anyway and I can put a proper plug in place before the special NON-toxic sound deadener/heat rejection bed liner material is laid. In fact may even do the opposite side in similar fashion. One less option for dust to migrate it way within the topper itself.
So needing to clear the stake bed itself and an unknown obstacle above I had to add another hole to the left side on another wall which I will point out actually cures another issue I was battling; wire routing of two 4ga wires.
A 0.750" elbow connector with a 90° to it will go in from the backside and between the NON-toxic bed liner material, the waterproof electrical gasket, and if I think it will need it, a bead of silicone around the fitting. Then the conduit will run below to the frame and route towards the spare tire well where it will connect into the house battery reserve waterproof storage locker. More on that later.
Here you can see how well the conduit connectors will work with the design and the cable routing to the E-Panel itself. I am really excited to get the bracket that will mount the E-panel to the truck as well as the carbon fiber backboard to the interior of the E-panel. Then the fun part of wiring comes into play, that's my specialty and I am hoping comes out the way I am envisioning it.. Hopefully as impressive !
So small steps as I can.. but again, adding worth to the build and the thread...
As always, thanks for looking.
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