stcyr
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- Apr 11, 2011
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I flashed the cash a few weeks ago and sent off for one of those battery monitor thingies.
99p it was, AND £2.50 p&p and it arrived from China within days.
It's been sitting on the table for a while now so yesterday I decided to wire it up temporarily to see if it worked. Cool blue screen with clear black figures.
So far it's been very entertaining and time-wasting - bearing in mind we've been living in the MH for a year now and everything's worked A1 I'm beginning to think we should've remained in blissful ignorance of the many fluctuations. Been trying all sorts of combinations, on mains, off mains, with/without solar-panel, with/without Truma fans, halogen lights, led lights and so on. Well it's proved that the chargers work but I'm not sure if any of the various readings may indicate cause for concern...
1) left everything off overnight, reading was 12.40ish (+/- 5) this a.m. - went up to around 13.20/30 after dawn.
2) on ehu with Truma on & laptop - 14.70/14.90
3) now, 2 x 20 led lights, no Truma fans - fluctuates 15.01/15.05
4) just disconnected ehu - settling around 13.42/13.45 (the 2 led lights on)
5) just reconnected ehu - climbing now from 13.45 ... 14.60 ... 14.80 ...
seems to be settling about 14.85 ... ah,gone up to 15.12 ... 15.05 now.
Does any of this tell any of you electrickery people anything, good,bad or indifferent? Especially regtarding the actual condition of the battery (100a Varta of unknown age) ???
Thanks muchly :thumb:
99p it was, AND £2.50 p&p and it arrived from China within days.
It's been sitting on the table for a while now so yesterday I decided to wire it up temporarily to see if it worked. Cool blue screen with clear black figures.
So far it's been very entertaining and time-wasting - bearing in mind we've been living in the MH for a year now and everything's worked A1 I'm beginning to think we should've remained in blissful ignorance of the many fluctuations. Been trying all sorts of combinations, on mains, off mains, with/without solar-panel, with/without Truma fans, halogen lights, led lights and so on. Well it's proved that the chargers work but I'm not sure if any of the various readings may indicate cause for concern...
1) left everything off overnight, reading was 12.40ish (+/- 5) this a.m. - went up to around 13.20/30 after dawn.
2) on ehu with Truma on & laptop - 14.70/14.90
3) now, 2 x 20 led lights, no Truma fans - fluctuates 15.01/15.05
4) just disconnected ehu - settling around 13.42/13.45 (the 2 led lights on)
5) just reconnected ehu - climbing now from 13.45 ... 14.60 ... 14.80 ...
seems to be settling about 14.85 ... ah,gone up to 15.12 ... 15.05 now.
Does any of this tell any of you electrickery people anything, good,bad or indifferent? Especially regtarding the actual condition of the battery (100a Varta of unknown age) ???
Thanks muchly :thumb: