Specifications

ENGLISH 21
FIELD-ADDED DC CABLING FOR VOLVO: CHANGE TO UPGRADED ALTERNATOR FOR DOMETIC
BATTERY-POWERED HVAC SYSTEM
Battery-Powered Systems Installation Guidelines
Dometic Environmental Field added DC cabling for Volvo Trucks YM post 2006: Change to upgraded alternator
for Dometic Battery Powered HVAC System
NOTES: 1) Batteries must be of the AGM deep cycle type 2) Added cables must be 2/0 or larger. 3) Add a positive cable from positive on the alternator
to the positive post on the starter.
4) Add a negative cable from the Frame Ground Post
to the Truck side of the Negative
Fuse
(not the battery
side.)
5) Drawing does
NOT
apply to Volvo trucks manufactured
between 1996 and end of 2006.
6) 400 amp Fuse in Negative cable changed to fusible link in
2008, week 46.
7) Alternator and/or starter location may change depending
on the type of engine installed.
Factory Wiring Field Wiring
Positive Fuse
- - - -
++++
New Positive 3/0 cable to Starter Positive
Starter
Alternator
Factory Positive
Factory Negative
Factory Positive
Factory Negative
Added 3/0 Negative cable
Right Front Tire
Left Front Tire
Engine
Block
Engine Ground Post
Frame Ground Post
Battery Box
Right Frame Rail
Left Frame Rail
A
A
A
Negative Fuse (or fusible link)
NOTE:
Volvo has several variations of this cabling. The most recent change is that
the ground post on the frame is located behind the battery box. In this can, route a new negative cable from the ground on the alternator to this stud. See also Note 6 below.
B
B
B
Revisions
REV.
DESCRIPTION
DATE
APPROVED
A
Change Title to include only Volvo Trucks built post-
2006. Add notes pertaining to this change.
4/21/2009
KEA
B
Chg Alternator Cabling to 3/0. Add note about YM
2009 and later trucks.
8/25/2009
KEA
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DRAWING IS THE SOLE PROPERTY OF DOMETIC CORP. ANY REPRODUCTION IN PART OR AS A WHOLE WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF
DOMETIC COR IS PROHIBITED.
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
NEXT ASSY
USED ON
APPLICATION
DIMENSIONS ARE IN INCHES TOLERANCES: FRACTIONAL ANGULAR: MACH
BEND
TWO PLACE DECIMAL THREE PLACE DECIMAL
INTERPRET GEOMETRIC
TOLERANCING PER:
MATERIAL
FINISH
DRAWN
CHECKED
ENG APPR.
MFG APPR.
Q.A.
COMMENTS:
DATE
NAME
TITLE:
SIZE
B
DWG. NO.
REV
WEIGHT:
SCALE: 1:1
UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED:
KEA
10/2/08
SHEET 1 OF 1
Battery-Volvo
DO NOT SCALE DRAWING
B