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Unimog Lots of folks buy expensive 24volt to 12 volt converters to power their 12 volt goodies in a 24volt truck. This is the simple way that I do it without the converter.
Make sure your tap is on the 12volt positive (+) of the battery that grounds to the frame of the vehicle. (make sure you tap the right battery!) I attached a 10 gauge wire and ran it up front. Notice the FUSE in the black plastic fuse holder.
I installed a fancy 12 volt fuse
box, right now I only have a GPS powered by it but I have 4 fuses and will be
adding my CB and HAM radio soon. Caution! YOU
MUST NOT USE YOUR BATTERY CUT OFF SWITCH, doing
so will blow the battery fuse on your 12 volt tap (good thing we put that fuse
in there!!), To
be fair, I must mention alot of folks don't like doing this, I have done it on
several unimogs and a 24v military Humvee without any problems. I only advise
running electronics that have a small current draw, no fog lights, no electric
winches and such. They might work but I'm not giving you any guarantees. The
small stuff I run works great and I have been doing this for years without any
problems at all, in fact these are the same batteries I put in my Unimog after I
first got it a few years ago and they are still fine. Some folks say one battery
will be overcharged by hooking up this way but since both batteries are charged
equally I really don't see how it could cause any problems, specially with such
small current draw and specially since I use the electronics only while the
truck is running.
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