Hi All,
I had some excellent advice back in the spring, but have a couple snags and wanted some guidance before I make any mistakes please.
I did my research and things had to bit on a bit of a budget to start with.
I fitted a Durite VSR to my T5.1 under the drivers seat with a kit from simply split charge. This was fitted to an 110AH xtreme AGM. I purchased one of these on recommendation here:
This was the camway version.
The shunt on the monitor was fitted as per the instructions. The only thing I did differently was to fit the thin positive cable from the shunt to a fused positive on the fuse board rather than to the positive terminal directly. I did this because I was concerned about safety and also that the wire required to connect to the shunt was so thin, I has no idea how I was going to safely connect it to the positive terminal.
I checked with a multi-meter that the voltage increased on the leisure battery when the engine was running and indeed the battery monitor shows 14v when engine running.
Questions/issues as below if anybody would be kind enough to help?
- The monitor is not showing the battery charging and so the percentage is constantly dropping and doesn't rise on charge. I'm going to return it but wanted to check that it's not because I've wired the thin positive wire from the shunt to a fused positive on the board, rather than the battery terminal directly?
- When the engine is running, I'm seeing 14v across the battery. Is this enough to fully charge the AGM leisure battery, or does it require a higher voltage/charger? What voltage can i expect to take the battery to using only the VSR? After the engine is off and I've made sure the VSR has closed again, the voltage never seems to settle anywhere near to 13v, but I'm wondering if this is the meter again. This is after two decent two hour runs in the van.
- When I connect a mains AGM compliant battery charger to the leisure battery, it opens the VSR the other way. Is this acceptable to charge it or do I need to isolate the VSR from the starter battery first?
Lastly, does anybody know somebody in the Somerset are who can safely sit an external diesel heater?
Thank you very much! Scott.
I had some excellent advice back in the spring, but have a couple snags and wanted some guidance before I make any mistakes please.
I did my research and things had to bit on a bit of a budget to start with.
I fitted a Durite VSR to my T5.1 under the drivers seat with a kit from simply split charge. This was fitted to an 110AH xtreme AGM. I purchased one of these on recommendation here:
This was the camway version.
The shunt on the monitor was fitted as per the instructions. The only thing I did differently was to fit the thin positive cable from the shunt to a fused positive on the fuse board rather than to the positive terminal directly. I did this because I was concerned about safety and also that the wire required to connect to the shunt was so thin, I has no idea how I was going to safely connect it to the positive terminal.
I checked with a multi-meter that the voltage increased on the leisure battery when the engine was running and indeed the battery monitor shows 14v when engine running.
Questions/issues as below if anybody would be kind enough to help?
- The monitor is not showing the battery charging and so the percentage is constantly dropping and doesn't rise on charge. I'm going to return it but wanted to check that it's not because I've wired the thin positive wire from the shunt to a fused positive on the board, rather than the battery terminal directly?
- When the engine is running, I'm seeing 14v across the battery. Is this enough to fully charge the AGM leisure battery, or does it require a higher voltage/charger? What voltage can i expect to take the battery to using only the VSR? After the engine is off and I've made sure the VSR has closed again, the voltage never seems to settle anywhere near to 13v, but I'm wondering if this is the meter again. This is after two decent two hour runs in the van.
- When I connect a mains AGM compliant battery charger to the leisure battery, it opens the VSR the other way. Is this acceptable to charge it or do I need to isolate the VSR from the starter battery first?
Lastly, does anybody know somebody in the Somerset are who can safely sit an external diesel heater?
Thank you very much! Scott.
