It has been a while since I have posted, I have been doing some work in preparation for trip to Fraser Island, which we have only returned from this weekend.
So, before the trip I wanted to finish the installation of single draw, fridge slide, fridge, fridge barrier, air compressor and dual battery set up.
So I decided to bundle a lot of this into one installation and started with a single Drifta draw with slide out table included which also had a battery box built into the front of the draw carcass. I have finally found the time to upload some in progress shots as well os some completion shots.
Firstly, below is once I received the Drifta draw and getting ready for installation into tub and making the side panel and infill panel for tidy install. In this shot you can see the draw in the back ground as well as the slide out table which I was using as a bit of a work bench. I must say, I am very happy with the drifta product, works great, looks great and is simple so doesn't have a lot to go wrong with it.
Below is a progress shot of the side panels.
The electrical fit out includes; 100AH AGM deep cycle battery mounted in draw carcass, Red Arc DCDC Booster charger, Battery Isolator, ARB CKMA12 Air compressor, Dedicated Engel screw in fridge socket, double USB charger, Cigi Charger, push button switches to match the Toyota look (I know they are from the Gen 7 era, but did't manage to figure out the right set up in time using the new wider Gen 8 style) VDO volt metre. I have switches for power to fridge, compressor, Aux power and a future switch for awning light which has a tail run to under body coiled up for future connection. You will see in the pictures below that it is wired so that the entire unit can be disconnected from the ute and removed from the tub using an anderson plug and a few other smaller connectors for ignition cable and future awning light cable.
The other thing I did, because the compressor was mouted in the cavity between draw carcass and tub, I installed a vent in the side infill panel. You can also see in the below pic the fridge cable coming up from the Engel plug point underneath.
A shot of the complete install without the fridge or fridge barrier.
The last component was the fridge barrier, I custom designed it and had it fabricated by Alicreations a small aluminium Fabricator out at Cleveland in Brisbane, it is made out of 5mm aluminium plate, and powder coated. I designed it to be mounted off some existing bolt locations off the MSA slide. It turned out better than I could have hoped. He did a great job!!!
I still need to work out something more permanent for managing the fridge cable when sliding in and out...
Lastly a shot of the final install. I didn't get a shot of it fully packed with the barrier doing its job so this is a as close as I got, but it did work perfectly...
This might be it for mods for a little while, but I will try post some pics of he Fraser trip when we have them downloaded, including a few of the fit out in use...