earth points

Ok so grounding has been tying me in knots mentally these past couple of weeks. When I initially installed my basic 12v system with only a single 100ah battery from what I read online grounding to chasis was not essential due to the small loads. I am speaking here only about for safety in...

Several days ago I fitted a permanent battery charger connection to the starter battery (directly across the terminals). I now have a CTEK MXS5.0 connected permanently while parked up at home. This keeps the starter battery fully charged and as it’s ’intelligent’ should not cause battery...

Hi , the earth lug at the rear drivers side with a brown cable (presumably for the lights or something) Can I attach the 240v earth here aswell as that?

Hi folks, about to do the above and not an electrician. I have been looking at some tutorial vids on U Tube which has only left me more confused. In the vids some people run an earth cable from the metal casing of the consumer unit to a metal earthing point on the van body or chassis - but some...

Something very odd happened last night.....I unlocked this amazing new feature that allows to you turn on the right indicator by putting the handbrake on!! The right indicator on my T6 would not go off when moving the stalk back to the centre (left worked fine in left position) so every time...

Thought I’d post how I did each of my GND connections through a seat base mounting stud bolt. I couldn’t use the factory GND studs under the seats because on the drivers side it had been removed to allow fitment of the diesel heater ductwork and on the passenger seat it was going to foul my...

Any help appreciated. I have a T6 highline. An orange warning light came up on my dashboard to say a bulb or light problem had occured. When I checked, the rear offside light cluster is not working (none of it, tail light, indicators, brake light - nothing?). Stragely, when I put my tow bar bike...

I am placing my non isolated DC charger under drivers seat using the under seat chassis ground. I am placing the leisure battery and fuse box in a cupboard behind the drivers seat. I want to limit how many cables I run from under the seat to the cupboard. Therefore if I use a bus bar under the...

Battery fully charged reads 13.7v after 10 seconds with a heavy duty discharge tester the battery still reads 12.4v and the tester says it is in the green. (The battery was disconnected from the vehicle for this test). My feeling is that the battery is fine but that there is something wrong...

Apologies for perhaps starting a new thread when this is covered elsewhere, but I am being a bit slow and just wanting to check. I have a vw shunt on the negative terminal but also a few other connections, probably from the camper conversion. I have seen in other threads that this should not...

I am installing a simple 12v system, key components being: Victron Orion-Tr Smart isolated DC-DC charger 12/12 - 30, Victron blue smart IP22 mains charger 12/30 230ah 12V LiFePO4 Roamer Lithium battery I will be grounding the negative terminals to the van body, with 16mm² cable. I plan to...

When insulating the rear of the van with recycled loft insulation (similar to this) what's the best thing to do around the rear light cables and and the earthing cable which is attached to the cross beam on each side of the van? Logic says I'm packing insulation arount the whole van which is no...

I was expecting to see an earth lug sited behind the rear light cluster when removed. I thought I had read there is one there somewhere in the vicinity. I was horrified by it's absence .Can someone explain where it is and how I'd get to it given the rear of my van is carpeted, I'm assuming it...

So I've had this lovely T6 for a year now while I've been converting it. Today I was looking in box under passenger seat I found a small cover that obviously belongs on the battery negative terminal well on this cover it shows a symbol of crocodile clip with red ❌ so that means don't connect...

Are these two point on the front passenger side chassis the main earthing points? can’t seem to see anything leaving the alternator?

Hi All, I'm fitting my nextbase dashcam to my new T6.1, and can see there is a fusebox under the steering wheel which looks like an ideal location. My problem however is that I cannot see a location for the ground. Lots of vids on YouTube are based on the T6 but the configuration is different...

Earthing Concept Circuit Diagrams Shows cable sizes/colours/functions for complete vehicle earthing system Also check out the earth points literature which may be handy in conjunction with this document https://www.t6forum.com/downloads/vw-t6-earth-points.108/ VIP Membership is required to...

Hi, could anyone help me with this please? Is it ok to ground the leisure battery via a busbar which is grounded to the chassis? So i have a 16mm from the chassis to the neg busbar then a 16mm from the busbar to the neg of the leisure battery? Is this ok or would i be better with a 16mm...

HI, Does anyone have a diagram of where the negative terminals are on a T6 please? Would be very handy for my planning! I am thinking that I can connect my circuits back to a negative terminal, rather than run them back to a fuse box / battery negative? Cheers Also, is it worth using...

When I got my T5.1, it was already insulated and carpeted around the body. I know there are factory fitted earthing points at various points around the van (I used the one under the drivers seat for my main link for the split charge relay). But I'm struggling to know where any other may be. I...