Hello Youtube In this video I'm going to be fitting this bestek
2000w inverter in my van. This is an image I took from the manufacturer's website.
as you can see there are 2 sets of crocodile leads in the picture.
This is the back of the inverter, you can see here there are two sets of connections to connect the
2 sets of leads. The way this inverter works is that both sets of leads are supposed to be
connected to the same battery. As this inverter is actually 2 1000w inverters internally. so if
you only connect up one set of leads you will only get a max 1000w. I only found this out afterwards.
because when I bought my inverter for some reason I only got 1 set of leads, maybe
someone took one of them from the box, maybe they weren't there in the first place. I don't know.
there was absolutely no information in the instructions. In my situation this doesn't really affect me really because
i'm only going to use this inverter to power my key cutting machine which is only about 600w
So first off i'm going to modify the crocodile leads so both ends have eyelets
Now i could go off and buy new leads but i'm lazy and cheap
So first off i'm going to modify these crocodile leads so both ends have eyelets.
So i'm just cutting the crocodile leads so basically i end up with a flat tab
Once i have that tab i'm just going to drill a 4 or 5 mm hole in it so it will turn it in to an eyelet
This is how it will connect to the battery (and inverter) and i do the very same for the red lead
In a Ford Transit the battery is located under the drivers seat and i want to mount the inverter as close to this as i can to this
so i'm going to mount the inverter on the bulkhead and i'm going to drill a nice big hole to send the leads through
there are a couple of covers over the battery, when these are out of the way you'll see the
poles of the battery. very straight forward from here, connect the red lead to the pole that the
other red cables are connected to, and connect the black lead to the pole that the other black leads
are connected to. This is the reason I wanted the eyelets on the leads so I can piggyback on one of
these other cable fixings.
i'm mounting the inverter to the bulkhead using a couple of self drilling screws
time to test. switch it on. green means it's working.
another test this time with the battery charger for my drill
next i mounted a double socket over my work bench and ran some 1.5mm squared flex
over to the inverter and wired a 3 pin plug to sit in the inverter at all times
Next I'm going to mount my key cutting machine to my workbench.
The rubber feet screw out so I'm going to make some custom brackets from old window hinges.
I want the key cutting machine to be very secure, so this is a good way to do that.
I cut sections off of old window hinges, put them in the vice and hammer them into a Z shape
My thinking behind this is that the rubber feet will absorb some of the shocks as the van is traveling
Once i'm happy with the shape i drill holes for the screws, first with a 3mm drill bit, then with a 5mm
i don't want these screws to come loose so I'm putting a drop of thread lock in each thread.
when its ready i screw it down to the bench. its rock solid.
Now for the moment of truth