Shifting The House Batteries... A Wiring Nightmare!

In the process of repairing the alternator, which I have told you about before, it was decided by all brains concerned, that the house batteries should be shifted from their very inaccessible position in both back corners under the bed to the outside locker next to the starter batteries.
Also the house batteries needed to be connected to the motor and starter batteries via a Voltage Sensing Regulator.
This means - for those that were ignorant, like me - that the house batteries instead of relying totally on solar to charge, charge while the motor is running.
First the motor charges the starting batteries then this amazing switch sends the charge to the house batteries. On a long enough drive all batteries are charged and overflowing.
The brains and skill behind doing this is Geoff Spencer - pictured - who knew exactly what he was doing amidst the jumble of wires.
He lives not far from where I was parked at Uretiti DoC camp.  I moved to his place where he could work on a concrete pad, taking cover during the frequent rain squalls, instead of sodden wet grass.
As you can see he pulled out meters and meters of surplus wire.

 

The batteries had been installed under the bed so moving them required dismantling the bed and taking the wooden base out.
All this got propped up in my living room.
To make matters worse it was raining so nothing could be put outside...
I'm told adversity develops character!
So that done, the 'underneaths' were exposed.
Under the pink batts is the 210litre fresh water tank and either side of that one battery and more meters and meters of wires.
The end result, a very tidy outside locker with all the batteries interconnected.
Now the batteries are moved the resulting empty space will be made into lockers accessible from the outside.
Thank you Geoff, a great job. I will be going back to see him to install my new solar panel and reversing camera when my new cargo box and roof rack are built.