ARB compressor/Blue sea fuse box

In case anyone was interested i thought I’d write a little about my install of my arb compressor, along with my fuse box, and a few other things. So I started off trying to make my own mount for my blue sea fuse box out of lexan, but wasn’t happy with it. So I ordered one from @paranoidfabrications and was super happy with it. I hit it with a couple coats of high heat rustoleum enamel so it would match the rest of the engine bay. I also stole an idea from @llod with his seahorse case for storage of the arb air hose and tire deflator, but instead I went with a pelican case in a tacticool color, and mounted that to the lid to the fuse box. None of the holes that I drilled ruined any of the diagram of the fuses on the underside of the lid so I was quite happy. I am no means good with electrical and had not the slightest clue what I was doing when it came to the blue sea, so a lot of it was trial and error. I visited west marine probably 4 times to get 4 gauge wire because I would mess something up, and same with auto zone. Finally I got the fuse box drilled to the mount, got rid of the inline fuse I had and replaced that with a breaker instead. I wired up the compressor, which I mounted on a CBI off-road bracket, which worked well and was cheaper by any other brand by at least $30. I then hooked up all the wiring but wasn’t very happy with all the extra wiring since I wasn’t going to be using air lockers. After a few days of looking at it, I decided to redo the harness and make it look better. I cut out the wiring for the lockers, retaped the harness, and put it in wire loom. I got rid of the arb switch and replaced it with the @Ch4x4s air compressor push button for a more factory look. I cut off a good length from the harness as well as the switch so it wouldn’t be a huge cluster behind the cubby. Overall I think the whole setup looks fairly clean for someone who had no idea what they were doing. If anyone had any questions, comments, concerns, feel free to ask.

 

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Interesting. Thank you for posting. Doing similar but air lockers front and rear. TBD on hose and accessories storage.

 

Thanks for the write up! Few questions.....
1. What size breaker switch did you use? Is the breaker in line with the fuse block? Sorry, I’m trying to follow what your wrote but cant’ picture it.
2. Is your compressor wired to the breaker then to the battery? Or to the fuse block?

I’m lookin got do the same, but I was told I could not wire the dual compressor to the blue sea fuse block since it took too much power. But I do want to wire it and shorten the harness. Just didn’t know I could wire it outside the battery and how. Thanks in advance, I’m pretty clueless but learn based on what others have done. I’ll post a pic of my set up.

 

the breaker is 150 amp and there’s a positive cable going from the battery to the breaker and then to the fuse block. The air compressor is wired to the battery but the switch is wired to the fuse block

 

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