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Exactly the same thing hapened to me a coiuple of weeks ago.
I have a smart charger built in to the supply unit and it defaults to "Smart"....some numpty at the dealers put in to leisure so my vehicle battery drained.
Now back as it should be and working well.
the BatteryMasetr products are an after market solution I believe.
However you connect the two batteries to a charger, the important thing is do you have a "smart" charger, one which senses the batteries are fully charged and then changes it charge rate to just maintain the battery state. I don't think many chargers are "dumb" these days but if it is not "smart", leaving a motorhome on hookup all the time will cook the batteries.
peedee
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We have the engine battery and the leisure batteries hard wired together with a fuse between and a key type power switch to isolate the engine from the leisure batteries.
We have our van in Silver Storage and this has no EHU facilities so our 120 watt solar panel is left to charge everything with all the batteries connected.. I have never had a problem, since we have done this as the panel always keeps all the batteries up to speed, and another advantage is you have the power from all the combined batteries on hand to start the engine if needed.
Another advantage is when you are travelling the alternator tops up all the batteries as well, so we can have the 2500 watt inverter on to run anything 240 volt as we are going along, especially useful to keep the grand kids amused on long distances, they can have the telly on with a dvd, or we can put the slow cooker on so there is a meal when we stop and all the batteries are still fully charged.
The only thing is you have to use your brain and remember to turn off the engine from the leisure batteries with the kill switch if you are going to be parked up and use the leisure batteries, all to make sure you keep the engine battery fully charged..
So far I have!.
ray.
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I just love how you guys keep all the information simple (not) wire this to that and wire this via that, have third wire that does this to that along with doing the other!!!!!!!!!
I just love how you guys keep all the information simple (not) wire this to that and wire this via that, have third wire that does this to that along with doing the other!!!!!!!!!
i have enough trouble wiring a plug.
but it all sounds really good
regards
keith
We learned from Fiat. "Throw a large bowl of spaghetti into a biscuit tin, put 4 wheels on it and you have a Ducato"
I can't claim the credit for this as the van came as is.
The original onboard charger only fed the leisure batts. So the previous owner fitted a small C-Tech auto charger under the starboard seat connected to the engine battery.
This is always plugged into a power socket and charges as soon as the mains is connected to the van.
In the event of the engine battery not being able to start the van when off mains power, the plug to the C-Tech can be put into an outlet from the onboard inverter fed from the leisure batts and solar panel.
Belt and braces I hope. Also hope this is simple enough.
Ray.
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