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What if they're both being charged together? When my engine is running both batteries can be charged by the alternator, which is setup to charge a starter battery. But they will also both be charged by the solar. If I shut off the ignition on a sunny day both batteries will contine to be...

Yup, it's dead. Central locking a few times pulled it down to 11.8. Battery was fecked, just the solar was keeping it on life support.

Starter 12.1, house 12.8 Have disconnected the VSR in case it's drawing more than it should

Thanks for the advice btw. Also discovered at lunchtime that my clamp meter no longer reads DC current, which is real unhelpful right now.

So am I just going to cook any new batteries too? MPPT controllers seem to have become a bit cheaper than a few years ago (about the only thing that has) Would an MPPT be less likely to cook the new battery? This seems very reasonably priced...

starter 12.4, house 12.8

Well that didnt take long! went out this morning and the VSR is disconnected and the house is at 13.9 and the starter is down to 12.5. I've switched off the solar to see what the house battery does over the course of the day. The batteries are sealed so I don't think I can check for levels...

It's the way the controller wanted to be wired and it's worked fine up to now. I've fat wiring back to the battery. No shortage of fuses either, I was just too lazy to draw them. Had to move it today but won't need to move it for a few days now. I've rigged up a pair of meters. Batteries...

But why would the voltage be dropping is what's confusing me, there's nothing switched on, and nothing else has changed so I don't know what would be causing it. I wasn't flattening the starter battery before now. I've hooked up two meters so going to keep an eye on everything for a few days...

I have a camper build thread over here: https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/nissan-primastar-camper-build.223043/ Built 2 years, up until now I have been running off the starter battery plus solar, my loads are small and I'm not normally not driving for long. However I will be...

Nothing to report here, passed inspection this year on the first attempt. has spent the winter as builder/farmer van, but now that the season's changing hopefully we'll get out more again. I modded two battery boxes to become one double battery box a few weeks back. the factory dual battery...

I always liked the simplicity of landrover forward control hub steps...

get something you're comfortable in above all else. even a 2wd with a set of all terrains and a compressor to allow for airing down will get you a hell of a long ways off road if you drive within it's abilities. get out there and learn what works for you as opposed to waiting until you have...

I'd be inclined to assume they're carraro. Carraro make axles, diffs, lsds and lockers for heavy truck and agricultural equipment so no reason to think they couldn't make small ones too.

Follow the instructions of the unit you buy to decide how far it needs to stick in

yes and yes basically. run your breather either to a catch can, or to the inlet side of the turbo. Flange adaptor with built in EGT also sounds fine, might also be useful in terms of turbo alignment. don't just think in 1 dimension, you can rotate the turbo relative to the mainifold flange by...

No, the man's right. Beer needs to be cold regardless of country.

I would imagine a big part of the BMW appeal is the ease of having petrol and diesel options. Given it's a customer engine arrangement the interface between the vehicle and the engine/box is likely to be less involved than it might be in an OEM application. This interface is going to be very...

Hockenheim, can't believe I'd forgotten to check there. I only ever raced there on a computer, very cool to have actually done it. The route above is only a map to show how far north or south I'm willing to go getting to Munich as opposed to any particular plan. We're going to do something...

Myself and my son will be doing a road trip this summer and have a few days in the schedule to play with. We will be driving from Normandy to Munich on the 22nd to 24th of July. We don't have a route defined but I'm figuring somewhere between the north and south extremities of this loop...