kelpbeds
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Well after much work I got the new Trojans fitted in their own air tight box, vented to the floor through pipework and installed nice thick 25mm wiring around to carry everything. Took a lot of work to get it all done (box of perfect size was hard to find) and I will included some pics and a big write up soon when it is all sussed.
However, there is a big problem. The Trojans don't appear to be working very well (at least it could be the Trojans) Basically once it was all installed I charged them up using the van's mains charger over night and meter was showing 100% charge in the morning. (before I charged them my BM1 meter was showing they had 5% charge).
Then I whacked up the heating to see what would happen. Within 5 mins the battery meter said they had gone from 100% to 80%, which I thought a little odd. Heating lasted on full whack for 5 hours then the flashing low voltage light came on the Webasto dial. Battery meter was now reading 72% charge at 12.4v - it was reading 13.7v when fully charged.
So recharged batteries again (over night),then after they were charged I put heating on a third up to see what happened. This time lasted a little longer but not much and same results with % and voltage etc..
Don't know what's going on now! My best guess would be a problem with the batteries, but I don't really know, could be a prob with the heater but then again on the old leisure batteries the heating ran for 24hrs and now it's running for a lot less so that would suggest the batteries are at fault. (another clue might be that when charging, the meter suggests that there is only a 0.3amp charge going into the batteries, which again seems very odd!)
Stumped again! Sure Jon and others will have some useful advice!
Thanks
Tim oh:
However, there is a big problem. The Trojans don't appear to be working very well (at least it could be the Trojans) Basically once it was all installed I charged them up using the van's mains charger over night and meter was showing 100% charge in the morning. (before I charged them my BM1 meter was showing they had 5% charge).
Then I whacked up the heating to see what would happen. Within 5 mins the battery meter said they had gone from 100% to 80%, which I thought a little odd. Heating lasted on full whack for 5 hours then the flashing low voltage light came on the Webasto dial. Battery meter was now reading 72% charge at 12.4v - it was reading 13.7v when fully charged.
So recharged batteries again (over night),then after they were charged I put heating on a third up to see what happened. This time lasted a little longer but not much and same results with % and voltage etc..
Don't know what's going on now! My best guess would be a problem with the batteries, but I don't really know, could be a prob with the heater but then again on the old leisure batteries the heating ran for 24hrs and now it's running for a lot less so that would suggest the batteries are at fault. (another clue might be that when charging, the meter suggests that there is only a 0.3amp charge going into the batteries, which again seems very odd!)
Stumped again! Sure Jon and others will have some useful advice!
Thanks
Tim oh: