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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:36 pm
by samuel
Guys
Thanks for your input to my query. 'Moonshine' i am please you have come out with the answer to using the cooly box. Bugger!!
'Alan' I should have asked you about a leisure battery alst time we met at Deerpark!! Are you and Dee coming to Seaton?
Cheers
Tim
Leisure Batery
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:52 pm
by snowy
Tried out battery charger plugged into 12v socket but it blows the 15 amp fuse on the leisure battery I,ve checked the polarity of the connections they are ok also the charger runs the sat system and the tv no problem, perhaps it,s some form of initial power surge into the battery, anybody got any ideas, thanks for previous help guys.
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:39 pm
by moonshine
Only thing I can suggest is to connect the charger directly to the battery without going through the vehicle's fuse. It can then only blow its own fuse, and if it does, the charger itself must be faulty.
leisure battery
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:12 am
by snowy
Thanks Moonshine I,ll try connecting to the battery direct, I,m just curious as to why the big fuse of 15A blows I wonder if the split charge system may be part of the reason very strange.
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:21 am
by Seeker
I have a 110 ah liesure battery which is a free standing unit. Ie in a box with sockets for 12v and 800 w invertor attached to it. When in the Bongo I plug it into the rear cigar lighter. It keeps the unit charged and when I stop powers all the auxilliary circuits, radio etc.
Simple cheap and economic as you dont have to haul round unwanted wieght when not camping.
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:22 am
by Seeker
BTW I use 25 amp fuses.