The wire attached to my Bare Bonz fuse panel was too short to reach my battery way in the back of the Ghia, so they sent me some more cable and a nice power junction box.
Sadly, there’s no good place to put the junction box along the route. There’s an OK place (under the driver’s side back seat) but I couldn’t find any good mounting points.
So I bought another junction box and will put one in the back and one in the front, just exactly the right distance apart for a single run of cable. This will be handy later, as the junction boxes have screw terminals for the attachment of power wires for high-current add-ons like power windows or air conditioners or 120vac inverters. There’s one junction near the rear electronics and one near the front electronics.
Tonight I installed the rear junction box, along with a 60amp fuse holder (no fusible links in THIS vehicle) and also a ground terminal strip. I’m running a separate ground system, and I’m going to replicate the +12v run with a terminal strip at each end.
Why a separate ground? I don’t want to have to troubleshoot any wacky grounding problems. Besides, electronics projects don’t use the project box for distributing power, and this is just a great big electronics project.
