It's been ages since I've updated this so I'll have a bit of a go at catching up.
The big one completed before the trip was the duel battery setup and sorting out out to get power to everything.
Last new years my Mig kicked the bucket and being the lazy kind of bloke I am I didn't really do much about getting it fixed, so when the time came to knock up the battery tray I ended up having to borrow a mates arc welder. I didn't really get any photos of putting alot of this stuff together cause some filthy little junkies decided to find a way into our house and pinch anything that they could fit in a suitcase they found in our wardrobe, this included camera's phones, savings jars, jewellery...etc. I hope the little pricks OD..... umm anyway. I mounted the battery in the normal spot, and hung the redarc isolator from the standard battery clamp.
You can also see the tubing for the rear diff curled up on the firewall just behind the second battery.
I pinched a 100amp main fuse from surf wiring loom I had in the shed in wired it into the cable I have running to the rear. I could do some more work tidying that up I'm just waiting to find the right bits at the right price.
I cut out a bit of 16mm MDF and trimmed it with some left over vinyl I had from the Bundy. I have a few relays mounted on there for future goodies, one for the ARB compressor, a fuse block and a 3 outlet ciggie socket thingo I picked up from ABR Sidewinder for about $30. I wasn't overly impressed with the ciggie socket gizmo. The sockets aren't quite deep enough the plugs pop out on the road every now and then. You can see in the pic I've ziptied the one for the fridge to the board but this just destroyed the plug. I ended up hard wiring the lead for the firdge into the fuse block on an overnight stop over in Boulia because it just wouldn't stay in any more. So from the back here we run our 70L EvaKool, our EvaKool tough light, and the 12V adapter for the Laptop. You can also just see one of the mounts for the fridge, these pick up on the seat mount and seatbelt bolt holes. They locate it really well and give something to strap it down to.
The cable that runs to the battery is a bit of overkill but I had it laying around and I definitely wont need to upgrade it any time soon.