Ben from Snowys here folks. I've got here in my hand
the Powertech DC control box.
This is a little box with some built-in fuses,
switches and plugs that you can use as central point
to control all of your twelve volt devices in your care van
or camper trailer.
The box weighs about 1.65 kilos measures
thirty-six by eighteen by
about fifteen centimetres to the top of the fuse box here,
ten centimetres on his black bit here.
It's got a little screw holes on the back here,
and it comes with some screws
so you can actually mount it to a board or something in your
care van or back of your Ford camper trailer,
whatever you like.
We'll go into some of the details today on sort of
what's is inside.
Now, it is very much a DIY type scenario here
where this just provides you with switches
and power outlets,
and you need to put power into this box.
You can then also use these for solar in,
and you can then use this to power switch on and off
whatever you like
going in and out of the box.
So you will need to have a little bit of
knowledge of twelve volt what you want to set up
and the capabilities of this going
into this, setting this up,
but it does give you a lot of options.
It's a bit of a tour on the outside here.
We've got two Anderson ports here,
and that can be used for solar into the power box
and also power out.
If I have a look at the front, we've got a fuse box,
which will go into shortly
and explain where all they go across the top here,
you've got six switches that you can use to
have power out of the box and switch it from within the box.
With these switches here, underneath that volt metre,
to show you the voltage that's coming into the,
or the voltage available, at the box here.
And then you've got four outputs here.
One's a USB, got one amp
and 2.1 amps so 3.1 amp shared there,
and you've got three, twelve
or twenty-four volt cigarette ports.
Here you just standard cigarette ports.
Now I'll show you the fuse box here.
This is where the proof,
so there are rubber seals around it.
So you probably don't want to put it right up in the sun
or in the, you know, in the torrential rain,
but it is going to put up with a bit of moisture.
Now you get some fuses included in here.
I should also mention you do get a bit of
a wiring diagram here included with your power box,
but it's pretty easy to work it out.
So there's five fuses in here.
You've got three fifteen amp fuses,
and each of those fuses is attached
to two of these switches.
So this goes to this one, this goes to these two,
this goes to these two.
So fifteen amp fuse there.
You can change them out if you want.
There's a five amp fuse, which is this one here,
which is connected or in line with,
with the voltmeter here and the USB port here.
And then the twenty amp fuse here lines up
with the three cigarette points here.
The Anderson ports on the side are also fused,
but that's up underneath here.
Now I'm done this at the moment.
We can see the screws in the side just sitting there,
but you can get in underneath here and you can change all
this around if you like they're just blade fittings in here.
You see these are Anderson ports here,
come through a thirty amp fuse here
and then go directly to these bus bars here,
which is where the power can come straight into the unit.
So these solar, well,
these innocent ports here are going to be connected
essentially directly to our battery
by the thirty amp fuse here.
So we can use that for solely in
and also for power out if we like.
Now to get power into the unit,
if I just stand this up on its side here,
and we just talk about, if it's a bit of an orientation,
while it's standing up.
We've got the cigarette plugs here,
USB plug here, the voltmeter here at your two Andersons.
This is your fusebox up here
and the six switches across the top here.
Now, all around the sides, there's two in this side,
two on the opposite side, and one in each end.
These are all little rubber grommets.
So you can have the power from your battery coming in
through these rubber little grommets here.
And then you've got some points here that you can attach it
directly to this bus bar here.
You can use that for more attachments too, if you like.
There's three things attached to here already.
Two of those go through the thirty amp fuse to each of these
Anderson imports.
And the last one goes to the fusebox over here.
So it follows in around here,
and there's an attachment point power to the fuse box here.
And the negative bar here actually got four cables attached,
one for each of the Anderson ports.
And then there's two slightly smaller gauge cables here.
One that runs to the, the bay across the front here,
the cigarettes switches,
and then the actual switches at the back there.
So you can see inside here,
we've got power coming into the box.
If we attach it to here,
we've always got power to the USB
and the cigarette points here.
And also the Anderson points here.
So they're always alive and ready to use
as soon as we've got the battery attached.
They all go through fuses somewhere.
But these switches here have both positive
and negative to it, but there is a third blade on there,
which allows you to attach your accessories
and things to there.
So if you had say your UHF radio that you wanted to switch
through this, you can bring the cable in through the side,
attach it to this blade here, that then becomes a switch.
So as you flick the switch on the other side,
it turns to UHF radio on and off.
So you could do that for UHF radio.
You could do that for your, any,
any extra lights that you've got on the side of the car and
your roof rack or whatever you like,
maybe your air compressor.
You can switch through one of these as well,
just power out from this to the accessory.
So once you've got that a wired up and you understand how
you've got it all sort of set up inside there,
you can then customise the front of this.
So you've got space on here for stickers or labels,
and you can also label on the top here at the top,
wherever you like.
You've got, included with the kit,
a whole heap of worded Lac stickers here.
So deck lights, bilge pump, fog lights, spotlights, radio,
whatever you like to stick on there.
There's a whole heap of those and these a bit harder to see,
but these are little symbols.
So kind of your standard symbols
you'd seen that cause a high beam, low beam.
Got, I think diff locker, there.
This is a steering wheel,
I'm not sure what that would be for.
It looks like a water pump, maybe?
Anchor.
So you've got all sorts of different things that you can
then use to attach to this, or stick on this.
And you can then customise all the switches on this.
So if you've got the space to mount
this inside your trailer camp event for drive,
maybe a joke, have you, you've got room just to put
this up in a corner.
It allows you to really customise and keep all
those four volt accessories
and wiring nice and neat inside this weatherproof box
here so that it's really easy to operate,
maintain all your fuses and everything.
Only one spot in your twelve volt setup.
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