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    Posted: 10 Dec 2013 at 10:55pm
Originally posted by furpod

Would be nice if you are going to use someone else's pictures.. that you at least ask first if you are posting them as YOUR mod.. Angry

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Posts: 6128 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Dec 2013 at 1:45am
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Originally posted by furpod

Would be nice if you are going to use someone else's pictures.. that you at least ask first if you are posting them as YOUR mod.. Angry

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Unless you are also "JJ", (the OP) then no, not you.

If you are, then you already know that those pictures are not of a mod you/he did to your/his Pod. They are of other peoples mods/Pods, and in fact, at least one isn't even from a Pod at all.
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I was wondering what you would install a 12v for?
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Originally posted by jj

12 volt DC socket for r-pod 177 

Disconnect 120 volt power cord from r-pod to house if connected.
Disconnect 12 volt deep cycle battery by removing negative cable.
Remove wooden top from dinette seat
Open front cover (access door) converter. WFCO converter.
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Turn off all the breakers inside the panel, extra precaution.
Breakers are in the middle of the panel to right of the paper with the word “MAIN”.  (see picture above)
Remove front cover from the panel by removing screws.

Panel shown with breakers and 12 volt automotive fuses on the right side on green circuit board and with front panel removed.
Look for empty 12 volt connection screw on right side of the panel  (green circuit board) to the right of the automotive fuses. 
This particular panel has 2 empty connection screws at the bottom of the 12 volt circuit board.
Use one of those connection screws.

12 volt power sockets, you can choose the following:
       12 volt dash sockets (black)  drill 1 1/8 hole in the side panel of the bench seat.
       12 volt DC power socket with metal cover plate. 
 
Drill hole in the side of bench seat (make sure there is space) and install the 12 volt power socket, secure by tightening large nut on back of socket against backside of the panel. Secure plate with screws.
Pop out 12 volt DC circuit board from the panel housing to get access to the back of the circuit board to guide wire inside the converter housing to the front of the circuit board, or guide wire with board in place.
Use 14 or 12 gauge wire 1 red and 1 black.
Red wire will be the power source wire connected to the 12 volt DC circuit board connection screw.
Black wire will be the ground wire connected to the 12 volt DC ground bus bar behind the WFCO power panel housing. It is screwed to the floor of the trailer. (metal strip with holes on side and screws on top)
Top view back side of power converter panel housing.
12 volt DC Ground bus bar is in this picture right below the roll off white wire 
Top view with ground wires connected to ground bar behind the converter panel housing, ground bus bar screwed to the floor, connect ground wire from the 12 volt power socket to the ground bus bar.
Wiring diagram below, use 2 crimp-on vinyl female connectors for the back of 12 volt DC power socket. Connect one to the red wire and the other to the black wire and connect to back of 12 volt DC power socket. Red to the power side of the socket and black to the ground side of the socket.

Use crimp-on female connectors, 12 guage sample shown

























Automotive fuse, 10 amp sample fuse shown

After installation is finished, install automotive fuse in the slot next to the connection screw dedicated to power the 12 volt DC power socket. 


I noticed that some of the pictures in this Post were from furpods mods so I took a closer look at the pictures and all of them came from the internet and a few of them are not even pictures of an rpod. I have used pictures that I have gotten off of the internet to illustrate posts on other forums that I participate in but I think the etiquette for this is to note that the internet is the source of your pictures and that they are not your own. 
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I was wondering what you would install a 12v for?
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Originally posted by wingnut2312

I was wondering what you would install a 12v for?
Seriously? Charging phones or iPads or portable sound system or anything else you would use from the car charger. We have a Bose sound box that runs on 12v and bluetooth it with the iPhone and got tunes. 
I should probably take a picture from the interwebs and pretend it was mine. Crazy that the 178's come with NO 12v outlets. 
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Posts: 6128 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Dec 2013 at 12:08pm
Originally posted by wingnut2312

I was wondering what you would install a 12v for?


There are a plethora of 12v camping/household accessories out there that a person might want to plug in. You have a 182G, I think it comes with 12v receptacles, doesn't it? and a 12v TV and stereo system? The other pod models do not all have that option. So we have a need to recharge mp3 players and phones and cameras and ipads, etc.. When camping with hook ups, no big deal, wall warts abound. But when boondocking...

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... a thought....Ying Yang
It looks to me that the newbie JJ poster probably just posted the pictures as a good idea, one that they will be doing and not realizing that this was page to put his own mods that have been done.
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Posts: 633 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Dec 2013 at 2:12pm
Originally posted by LePodders

... a thought....Ying Yang
It looks to me that the newbie JJ poster probably just posted the pictures as a good idea, one that they will be doing and not realizing that this was page to put his own mods that have been done.

I agree the OP probobly wanted to be a part of the forum. He put together a great "how to" and illustrated it well. I don't think he meant anything by it. At least I hope he didn't.  
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I've been waiting for the OP to respond before weighing in publicly...
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