Nathan,
BLUF: no. This is partially due to my own ineptitude, but largely out of finances. My idea of installing the second battery is tied to several other accessories I want to wire into that battery (as an old fashioned “uncomputerized” second circuit), and when one adds up the cost of the battery, TRAXIDE kit, accessory lighting, power inverter and…. I just haven’t “gotten around to it.” So…now I feel pretty low. The TRAXIDE kit is slowly working its way up my list, however.
I have done a lot of homework in the meantime however, but more on lighting and some electrical versus the inverter. Which fuse block are you referring to…the one in the glove compartment or on the driver’s side? I haven’t figured out how to hard wire into the factory fuse blocks in order to use the existing vehicle infrastructure for other accessories (if that is even a possibility).
Currently, my plans are to use a radio shack accessory box and mount it in the engine compartment (next to the ground cabling, passenger side) and put the accessory relays, fuse panel, and wiring in that. That keeps the fuses and the relays out front near the accessories (in this case lights, I am partial to the Light Force Genesis HIDs to mount directly onto the plastic not-so “protection bar”) and prevents me from running more junk into the cockpit and drilling or stuffing more cabling through the firewall grommets.
My plans for the Power inverter were to place the inverter into the passenger compartment (so forget what I just said about not running anything through the firewall!) and hard wire a plug into the passenger side kick plate or even glove box. Some disassembly and then reassembly will be required. If I felt really frisky, then I could hard wire another plug all the way to the back so one could plug in the passenger side or in the back. I planned on using the area in the back where all the plumbing for the air shocks is located to mount the various gear (another fuse panel in a radio shack accessory box with (potentially) another relay for an accessory light to be mounted on the roof rack, backwards); Land Rover Genuine Parts Work lamp, see
http://www.expeditionexchange.com/cart/search.php?mode=search&page=1 .
One question since we are talking about inverters: any input from your research? Right now, I am partial to the PROwatt 1750 for $500 available at
www.OKOFFROAD.com (see electrical section). If I hard wire and mount something in the LR4…I want to make sure I am not going to have any other problems with it so I am looking for a quality product.
So-a lot of talk…and no action. Thoughts from anyone? What are some ideas you have seen from "other sweet setups in other trucks?" I haven't seen anything in LR4's. But, of course, mine is the only LR4 in this country...
In good news, I did recently get my ARB off-road tire fix-it kit, High Lift Handle-All, and black plastic Hi-Lift “Jack-Guard” (which I will mount to my roof rack as one of the last additions to my roof rack).
Cheers,
Land Rover Joe