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I'm not sure the dc160 charges both battery's when on EHU. I've got the vechicle dab with speakers around the back. A bit concerned it will drain the vechicle battery if not charging?

Hi All, I’m hoping someone may be able to help. I’m currently driving through Spain with my family on our first major trip in our van. All has been going fine, we’ve stayed at a couple of campsites and connected the electric successfully. We discovered the box in the first image and found...

Hi all, I'm currently in the planning stages of my T6 camper conversion and working through the electrical system. I’ve attached below the diagram I've created of the layout I’m going for. I’d really appreciate any feedback or advice from those who’ve been through a similar build or have...

Sunset at Southport, no overnight camping allowed. Could have moved to a car park nearby but it was rammed.. but forgot to charge the leisure battery so no heating and without EHU Mrs was not ready for “roughing it” after only coming back from the Canary Islands earlier this week… still needs to...

The AMT ks more fit and forget, so long as your leisure battery is also recieving charge from solar/EHU For me I like the challenge of making it work and also, for now, I'm keeping the van pretty much stock and I had almost all the bits to hand. With where I park tailgate on to the garage it's...

Pretty much: When you charge the Starter battery, the higher voltage fools the van into thinking the alternator is running so activates the ”engine run“ signal. This then activates the split charge relay, so your charger then begins to charge both the starter and leisure battery as they are now...

Hi guys, having a bit of an issue with my elec set up. Plugged into a EHU on Tuesday, van was happy with voltage display reading 13.8v on my Sargent EC160 panel. Went to move pitches (was offered a better pitch), plugged into that one and the control panel read 12.2v but the 3 pin plug socket...

Mine does that, I charge the Starter over the winter, and the Split Relay activates and charges the Leisure. I would have thought no issue with doing as you suggest. It's just voltage. If the Leisure doesn't need it, it won't accept it. Same happens when people have Solar and EHU.

Hi Folks, Many thanks to Dellmassive, Pauly, icb & Salty Spuds for all your comments. I'm still a little confused about the leisure battery being charged when connected to EHU. When I connect via EHU the Seattle Control panel only shows the Leisure battery when it should show the 'Plug' symbol...

You should make sure that both batteries get a maintenance charge - ideally you have a decent multi stage charger on your EHU already for the leisure battery so just leave it hooked up - starter battery you can either fit something like the AMT-12 to trickle it from the maintained leisure...

Re 1), this was in response to a Q asking if it was normal that the leisure battery discharged in a week in winter... ...did you mean to say that yes this is normal? Did you perhaps miss the key word 'unless'? ie "yes this is normal UNLESS you've turned all the camping loads off"? ...but...

Yes i have o i have the Revolution conversion. It had the Sterling B2B and Sargent EC power distribution and charger. The Sterling got replaced by a more compact less cumbersome Victron. I removed the internal constant voltage battery charger from the Sargent as tge Leisure Battery was an AGM...

I'm sure you are aware of the setup of some of the forum members, but some have a battery charger connected straight off the EHU to charge the vehicle battery. This then via a DC to DC charger tops up the leisure battery. If you add in a solar panel, there are three ways of charging up the...

Alternator charging under the factory set up is basically: 100a fused connection from the starter battery (e-box fuses) going to a split charge relay with an ignition signal wire under the passenger seat, then to an 80a fuse, then to the leisure battery positive terminal. Literally nothing more...

Been charging my Starter battery today and just by luck I was in the van when I noticed that the DC-DC converter turned on even though i’d disconnected the “engine run” signal to it by pulling the fuse (disconnected). Back to the REDARC manual and it states that the trigger works as follows...

To add to this, camper leisure batteries are slightly off piste in that they charge and discharge at the same time. I.e. you plug into EHU & your mains charger kicks in. But at the same time the fridge/lights/usb etc will be pulling current from the battery. Some battery chargers don’t like this...

At this time of year, particularly when the weather gets cold, I get a low vehicle battery warning from my MetaTrak tracker app about once a week. I am aware that the tracker itself is the likely cause of the battery drain and that the resolution to this is to drive the van more often (mainly...

Thanks for your reply, a run out to the supermarket is a good idea

No the LB is charged up to 12.7v on EHU. When I disconnected the DC DC from the van battery I was expecting it to go dead and then reset. But the app showed it still had 5.7v so it never reset. I was guessing that the LB was somehow providing power. Driving today the DC DC is still showing...

No disrespect, but surely these ought to have been the questions you asked the person you no doubt handed over a large wad of cash to for the conversion. You are asking the collective who can only second guess how it's all been put together & configured. The person to ask is the one who...