Hello; sorting out the wiring on a 34' Limited 1986 following a shell off subfloor replacement/frame rebuild. The wires for the 5 circuits from the DC panel to various
12V appliances are straighforward, but the switches are taking more time to understand...so much pigtailing. I've deleted the control panel - into the bin. I have fitted the See Level tank monitoring system to the tanks with the sensor wires terminating at the front of the trailer.
I've done a lot of reading and have the owners + service manuals from this era. A few changes have been made over the years but I'm keeping the original
12V DC wires as the wire colors generally correspond to the manuals' schematics. I am labelling all
12V DC wires at the front of the trailer, and will hire an RV electrician to install my Blue Sea AC/DC panel, converter, etc.... in a cabinet that will be built over the batteries. 30 amp AC with tinned stranded marine wire is all new from front to back, and I find the 120V AC to be straight forward. Romex is gone.
I note that a forum member TheVagabond asked exactly the question I have in 2021 but no response, so I will ask again and hope for a reply. I am confident that we are not the first to deep six the control panel.
Working backwards the wires at my water pump are one orange/white stripe and one white. So we have power and ground.
The wires at the bath pump switch are two orange and one orange/white stripes for a total of three wires. That orange/white strips joins the one from the water pump at a splice in the ceiling and is a single feed to the control panel plug.
The wires at the kitchen pump switch are the two orange travelling over from the bath pump switch, and a pink that branches off from the 'pink' main panel circuit that feeds a number of appliances. A pink wire also branches off this main pink to the control panel plug, but no more control panel, so it has been removed. The pump switch in the kitchen is getting power from the main 'pink' circuit, so deleting the pink at the control panel doesn't affect power to the switch.
However, the orange/white stripe wire that had ended at the control panel is now an orphan, as is the ground wire that had been in that control panel plug, and as noted that orange/white stripe wire is the power wire at the water pump.
Opinions are appreciated on whether this orange/white stripe wire that ended at the control panel should extend to the DC power panel? I have room on the panel to add it to it's own dedicated circuit.
A few photos are included.
Thanks so much.
Cheers...Denis