Any idea what this is?

[chenderson1965]

Hi All,

I'm planning on installing a second solar panel tomorrow. I'm pretty confident I know what I'm doing with that and, aside from cable routing, I don't forsee any problems.

On the recommendation of those who know on this forum, I also bought a battery master for trickle charging the engine battery from the leisure batteries. It's an N&B Arto 79 2012 3.0L so it has a B2B charger fitted as standard, but that only works when the leisure batteries are over 13.5v so it didn't seem to be working very well in the winter.

On scoping the job today I noticed this small device which has similar wiring to the battery master - so I'm wondering if I have one already fitted, or if this is the device that N&B fit to do the charging (and which doesn't work until the LBs hit 13.5v. It's completely unmarked. Any ideas what it is? Or, if not, how I can find out?

Thanks

Chris

 

[Hellski]

Hi, being a recent owner of a Arto, I’m not able to answer other than my engine battery appears to be charged as well as the leisure batteries.
Perhaps Martin funflair may have come across this via the owners forum and provide assistance?

 

[Robert Clark]

My guess is that its a battery master which keeps the engine battery topped up with a small trickle charge from the leisure battery (assuming you've got solar panels)

 

[jongood]

It does look a bit like it, do two of the leads go to b1 and b2?

 

[chenderson1965]

It does look a bit like it, do two of the leads go to b1 and b2?

Yes. Thanks. Jim confirmed that it was.

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[funflair]

I go with the other suggestions of a battery master, does that mean you have a spare Battery Master Chris?

Martin

 

[chenderson1965]

I go with the other suggestions of a battery master, does that mean you have a spare Battery Master Chris?

Martin

Afraid not. I’ve returned it!