Recent content by nickburt

Hello, can you advise what's happening to replace the OJ App please. Would be nice to get a reply: https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/overland-journal-subscription-snafu.246549/ Thank you.

Yes, I always do too.

Thank you. Very similar end result to my current train of thought. For the amount it "might" get used for (assuming I don't do something stupid!!!) I've come to the following conclusions: 1. Swapping out the starter battery for Lithium and all that goes with being able to charge from a...

Thanks all for the replies. Winch is a 12000lb champion, front bumper mounted for vehicle recovery. Used very little - and as said above - used more often for pulling others out than self recovery. Current starter battery is charged by a standard alternator, so if I were to go lithium, a B2B...

Just in the process of a re-vamp of my battery set up and have changed my house batteries over to lithium (2x 100Ahr Renogy). My starting battery is a 110Ahr lead acid. My winch is powered by the house batteries, but now thinking I need to power it from the main starter battery, due to the...

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm sticking with the kit he has at the moment, and will rewire with correctly sized cabling and put a change over relay in to auto switch which charging source is to be used by using the trigger signal from the alternator.

The vehicle is an ex MOD DAF 4x4 10,800kg flatbed. The box body is a demountable comms body which has been converted for living. Mixture of 12vdc and 240Vac equipment (water system, 3 way fridge, LED lights, TV, shower and toilet) in the comms body and the main vehicle retains it's original...

@john61ct Many thanks for your reply. Hmm, not sure, but I guess the battery will smooth any difference. Just don't like the idea of a back feed to the charger with the lower voltage. 24v starting/main battery + 12v house/auxiliary batteries. The original vehicle is 24v, so all native...

Hmm, a possibility. Just working with what's there at the moment. If I can come up with a more efficient system, I'm sure he'll spend the money.

Been working on a friends overland Daf 4x4 this bank holiday weekend. The Daf is 24v, the main vehicle battery is a bank of 2 x 24v. I've had to strip out a lot of wiring due to poor design and installation causing a few problems, but now getting close to rebuilding. The battery to battery...

Good luck with this, will be watching with interest.

Just picked up on this topic. I'm looking at planning a trip in 2020: UK - Netherlands - Germany - Denmark - Sweden - Norway - Sweden - Norway - Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Lithuania - Belarus - Poland - Germany - Netherlands - UK Current rough route is 4500 km in roughly 4 weeks Already have...

I already have a split charge system the uses a voltage sensing solenoid to auto connect when the starting battery voltage passes above a threshold, the controller for the solenoid also gives me the ability to manually connect the starting and houshold batteries if needed. (I have a Tmax split...