I installed accessory outlets

strantor · Sep 20, 2018

I sure did. And you can too. I got tired of my crappy phone draining while I do tractor work (it only takes about 4 hours to drain) so rather than replace my aged $150 phone I drilled huge holes in my brand new $24k tractor. Makes perfect sense to me. Plus now I can plug in my spotlight. They are marine outlets I got from Amazon. Dual USB outlet, 12v outlet.

I installed them on a portion of the dash fairing that had a downward slope so water wouldn't be tempted to get it (in spite of the rubber caps, water is ornery). There was barely enough room for the outlets, and not enough room to plug the spade terminals onto the the prongs, so I soldered the wires directly to the spade terminals and put dual wall adhesive lined heatshrink tubing over them. I picked up a 10A fused accessory hot wire from the an unused plug coming out the back of the fuse box right to the side of where the outlets are. It was labeled "EHL" on the fuse panel. No idea what that stands for. No such text appears in the operators manual or service manual. Well now it stands for "phone charger."

Figuring out where to install them was the hardest part, and involved a lot of fumbling around blind behind the dash with a Sharpie trying to outline where crap was back there.

I just did this an hour ago so the results on longevity are not in yet. If it gets rained on and dies or catches the tractor on fire, I'll let you know.

prichard · Sep 20, 2018

Nice job.

What cupholder is that and how does it attach?

darmstrong2319 · Sep 20, 2018

Nice install

strantor · Sep 20, 2018

prichard said:
Nice job.

What cupholder is that and how does it attach?

Thanks. I'll just quote myself from another thread where I explained the cup holder:

strantor said:
This isn't the first tool box or cupholder thread I've seen lately. I didn't realize there was so much interest in this topic.

Well anyway, here's my cup holder.

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It's made for motion, set inside a gimbal so the drink doesn't slosh out. Big enough to fit a coffee mug and has a slot for the handle. As long as I don't do anything crazy I can drive around with full mug of coffee, no lid, no problem.

Right out of the package, they give you a few options to mount this contraption, but none that I liked. I wanted it right in front of me, oriented toward me, no reaching in strange directions and grabbing a coffee mug with handle facing out. I guess I'm just picky. I spent more than a reasonable amount of time coming up with a solution for that. I've got it attached where the dash panel retaining knob goes.

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I made a custom little "Liquid Caddy XL --to-->> LS XR Dash Panel" adapter out of a cheap china C-clamp screw.
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It replaces both the dash panel retaining knob and the universal attachment of the cupholder.

I have no toolbox solution yet but it's on the to do list.

ddbackhoe · Sep 20, 2018

Where's the phone holder

Those will be a handy add-on and your install looks good.

prichard · Sep 20, 2018

Nice, thanks

WranglerX · Sep 20, 2018

Didn't do a auxiliary power outlet persae, but added a inline fuse directly off battery then to added toggle switch on dash (with "on" LED) and on to plug at rear so I could power up my sprayer while engine was off.... Silly convenience wire from factory harness out to back of tractor was under ignition switch control.... And no ACC position....

Dale