12v supply into canopy for accessories

[jgols]

Hi Mate I will take some photos for you, mine is a 2011 SR5, front and rear of the tray has spots to run wires, i just ran my hF ariel wires throughthe front holes today, it is right up under the lip where the inner skin meets the top lip of the tray. I will try get photos for you.

Cheers

Jay

[Kevtek]

Yes my vehicle is a 2012 SR5. After removing the tail light, I found the gap at the top from where the tail light was fitted. It's the same on both sides. I am not sure if the SR ute tub is any different than the SR5.

[aaronpricey]

Yeah found the gap, got the power in there easy as now, without drilling any holes.

[Beanstalker]

What size wire did you fellas use, I want to do the same but run a fridge and some led lights and maybe a couple of usb plugs

[martynvella]

It is wise to run 2 different supplies, one devoted to the fridge socket. Always good to have a back up to plug the fridge into if its circuit fails, and anything else that is plugged in that's faulty wont affect the temperature of your beer ummm I mean food. I have both my accessory sockets in the tub fused separately but the fridge socket has its own cable run directly to the house battery on the opposite side of the car so one mishap cant take out both circuits.

[Richiesupercharged]

I want to make a switch panel with sockets in my canopy .. what size cable will I need? 5 or 6mm?
to run fridge, few LED work lights, LED strip light, small water pump

Not a permanent setup, canopy will be on and off so was thinking Anderson plug in tub and mount panel in canopy and connect up when canopy fitted with a 50amp circuit breaker that I can un make to cut the power to rear when not needed.

[fracturedranga]

If youre going to use a 50A cct breaker your cable needs to be rated for more tham 50A so 6to8b&s, 8b&s is 7 something mm2. Thats copper size not total size. Automotive cable is bullshit and measured by total diameter not copper size so 6mm automotive cable is only around 2.5mm2 copper depending on manufacturer.

[Critter350]

Depends what you want to run Ritchie.
Good article here- http://www.fridge-and-solar.net/wire.html
And you can google 'wire sizing chart' after you've read the above article, because wire ain't necessarily wire.
If you don't know what you want to run yet, just put in the biggest you can justify spending the money on, but make sure the fuse is rated lower than the cable- eg for a 30A rated wire use a 20A fuse. Always want the fuse to burn before the wire does.


Cheers
Crit