Charging leisure battery from car

[geoffdown]

Originally Posted by Thomas-the-Terrano2

its how it came, reckon my 110amp battery is good for a 2 day
winter rally though more on safe side. in winter biggest draw
is lighting, have tried leds in most of lights with mixed results.
seem rather like energy savers in house technically a good
light but not a nice one. think prefer the florescents it has in
bathroom and over kitchen, may add more of those to dark
places - ok bit clinical but atleast can see and read.

this battery is good for a 4-7 night summer trip of mains, where
less lighting demand leaves capacity for water pump, this
is washing and flush only as carry in drinking water in 5 litres.

but as said with so many ignitors that need a good spark cant
risk wasting standard battery on the tv and other gadgets
we take with us.

this is why decided a panel is first investment can keep baattery
topped up indefinitely. a pal in rally club has 2 x110 in parallel
which helps push his invertor to run sky box, domestic tv easily.

adding another battery is further down my line though concern
is more weight. being able to top up battery in situ off car
on the site when that yellow.
thing is missing as a reserve.

hi mate i love my gadgets and had to book 2weeks at a cl with no ehu in the lakes i measured what all the things use in amps led 19" 12v tv with built in dvd player when watching tv it would use 2 amps when watching a dvd would use 2.5amps water pump whale high flow 2.5Amps every light in the van was changed for white led and used blown air heater on gas i install a device called a nasa battery display cost about £90 but would tell u how much amps were being used and how long the battery would last then when the solar pannel was charging would tell u how much amps r going back in and how long it would take to charge the battery would not go down any lower than 75% at end of night then when the sun was out the 80w pannel (£169 delivered ebay) would have it charged b4 mid day this lasted 2 weeks and we left the campsite with a full battery the tv would go on at 5pm and stay on till 12mid night not watching it all the time just to see if the bat and pannel could coupe and it did we also had laptops to charge as well the battery was unbranded 100ah marine battery hope this helps

[illy]

Originally Posted by daved

Comfort, well if anyone thinkd 12v only is roughing it i can garuntee you its luxury. Having spend days and weeks at a stretch living in a scrape or bivvied out any caravan is starting to replicate your home

Anyone can slum it

Lol Daved no what ya mean mate, I also had to live in a garden shed for four months in Crossmaglen Northern Ireland till the mortar proof accommodation was finished.

What about 2 batteries though.

[(RIP) PLANK]

Originally Posted by jims-terrano

When I used to have a caravan we used flurescent strip lights and then down to a couple of small 5 watt eyeballs, water pump and a B&W telly for a couple of hours a day if that. We never ran out of charge and we had weeks or two weeks at a time. We used electric hook up hardly at all due to extra cost.
The resistance from front of car to van battery easily builds up due to quality of wire and also the connections such as the 12s and spades to relays and switches. Usually it was not worth trying to charge a battery but always felt I had a bit of comfort by trickling a little charge in to it.

Jim

PS trouble was when we didn't watch much telly we had more kids

so that's what causes it, i wish you had said something sooner

[briggie]

Originally Posted by PLANK

so that's what causes it, i wish you had said something sooner

its much more fun when your firing blanks ( given the chance of course )

[Deleted account DD]

Originally Posted by illy

Lol Daved no what ya mean mate, I also had to live in a garden shed for four months in Crossmaglen Northern Ireland till the mortar proof accommodation was finished.

What about 2 batteries though.

Our lads been seeing a young lady who lives Crumlin. I nearly fell over when I heard he was in and out of there!!!!!!!!!!