Relocating switch panel

[scottybee]

Hey All

Got tired of the house battery switch accidentally getting turned off. The switches are on a panel located in the step well coming into the coach.
This usually happens while we're traveling for the day. When we stop for the day I get everything hooked up then no power. And duh I look at everything BUT the dang switch for 20 minutes.
So I decided to see if I could move the panel and here's what I came up with.
The first pic shows the hole where the panel was located.



I pulled the paneling off the wall and I was able to feed the harness with all the switch connectors up through the floor and over to the new location.



There are two sets of wires on the harness that are capped off as you can see here. Anyone have an Idea what those could be used for?
While I had the paneling off the wall I tapped into the porch light and ran lights down to the outdoor grab handle and put lights in it.



We decided to change the look of the paneled wall since I kinda tore up the seam tape between the two pieces. Went with some vinyl stick on tile. And since I now know where there is some solid wood behind the wall I put up 3 coat hooks.

[Jakm]

Nice job, I like it. Have to add that to my todo list. The panel on my 2011 37F has a little different switch arrangement which may give you a clue as to the capped wires.

[scottybee]

I like the wood grain. The switch panel looks pretty close to mine.

[Morich]

Do the wires have ID code printed on the sides so that one could look to this chart for info on where they come and go to?
https://www.winnebago.com/Files/File...ical_guide.pdf

[scottybee]

Originally Posted by Morich

Do the wires have ID code printed on the sides so that one could look to this chart for info on where they come and go to?
https://www.winnebago.com/Files/File...ical_guide.pdf

They do have codes on them. I'll have to see if I can read them in any of the pics I took.

[Brooks]

Originally Posted by scottybee

Hey All

Got tired of the house battery switch accidentally getting turned off. The switches are on a panel located in the step well coming into the coach.
This usually happens while we're traveling for the day. When we stop for the day I get everything hooked up then no power. And duh I look at everything BUT the dang switch for 20 minutes.
So I decided to see if I could move the panel and here's what I came up with.
The first pic shows the hole where the panel was located.

Attachment 176254

I pulled the paneling off the wall and I was able to feed the harness with all the switch connectors up through the floor and over to the new location.

Attachment 176253

There are two sets of wires on the harness that are capped off as you can see here. Anyone have an Idea what those could be used for?
While I had the paneling off the wall I tapped into the porch light and ran lights down to the outdoor grab handle and put lights in it.

Attachment 176255

We decided to change the look of the paneled wall since I kinda tore up the seam tape between the two pieces. Went with some vinyl stick on tile. And since I now know where there is some solid wood behind the wall I put up 3 coat hooks.

Attachment 176256

just curious how did you put the lights in the handle and also I have read that there are wires running to the handle

[Joette]

Hubby just installed a switch cover over the switches like you see on the outside of some rvs that have outside outlets. We lift it to turn them on or off, but can’t accidentally bump them off anymore. Wish I had a pic, but rv isn’t handy.

[scottybee]

Brooks
There were no wires running to my handle. I pulled the porch light out there is plenty of wire there. Used posi tap connectors to tap the wires. https://www.posi-products.com/posiplug.html then used little marker lights one in each end of the handle
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/pr...BoCqfkQAvD_BwE