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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: darren clarke on October 20, 2010, 11:18:29 am
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am moving my pump over to run off the van battery, been testing it and the flow control flashed up battery, so charging the battery, the battery on the van is 72 amp is this enough or do i need to swap it for my leisure battery that i use to use.
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Mine is 100ah
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72 is good enough if charged every day. But running off the van battery is a bit risky, you might be fine for years, but let's say you have the dream round, a full days work with no moving the van. On a cold winters day you might not he able to drive off at the end as you won't have enough juice left in the battery to turn the engine.
Simon.
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72 is good enough if charged every day. But running off the van battery is a bit risky, you might be fine for years, but let's say you have the dream round, a full days work with no moving the van. On a cold winters day you might not he able to drive off at the end as you won't have enough juice left in the battery to turn the engine.
Simon.
I totally agree. No matter that Dave Morris will tell you to the contrary. My 110 amp leisure battery went flat at the end of a big job the other day and that was with a pump controller and 30 amp intelligent split charge relay.
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72 is good enough if charged every day. But running off the van battery is a bit risky, you might be fine for years, but let's say you have the dream round, a full days work with no moving the van. On a cold winters day you might not he able to drive off at the end as you won't have enough juice left in the battery to turn the engine.
Simon.
I totally agree. No matter that Dave Morris will tell you to the contrary. My 110 amp leisure battery went flat at the end of a big job the other day and that was with a pump controller and 30 amp intelligent split charge relay.
Hi mate how old is your 110 leisure batt because i would have thought you should get 2 days out off that with ease.
dave
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its about 18 months old, have taken to charging it every nite, just incase it goes flat, am going to carry the battery just incase it goes flat,
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Mine's about 18 months old now. It normally lasts a week or two off the split charge relay without a bench charge. It went flat on a big job where I hadn't moved the van all day. Fine once I started the engine and lucky I was working right next to it by that time because obviously you can't lock the van with the engine running and the key in the ignition, not unless you've got a spare key. I do have another backup lead to the cigarette lighter just in case. Also I normally bench charge the night before if doing a really big job, but on this occasion I forgot. Still, it had only had one days use since a bench charge. Perhaps it's life is nearly over. I think I may have shortened it in it's early days when I took it camping and ran it flat running psp's and cool boxes off it.
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its about 18 months old, have taken to charging it every nite, just incase it goes flat, am going to carry the battery just incase it goes flat,
i have had this problem for a long time now that why i put this post up to start with and asked dave morris about runing off van batt but like you i was concerned that the van batt standing for long periods of time would run it flat. i have a 75 amp batt with 30 amp relay but i have not got the guts to try it of the van batt.
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am going to try it to moz, worse thing that happens is i get a flat battery, if i do that back to the battery on its own
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am going to try it to moz, worse thing that happens is i get a flat battery, if i do that back to the battery on its own
ok mate keep me posted if you don;t mind and all the best for tomorrow hope it works for your sake aswell as mine
dave
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Bluemonkey,
its not your battery thats flat, its your head
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Bluemonkey,
its not your battery thats flat, its your head
what ever, go and cry over rooney and blame all your problems on glazer, u bore me now, thats why i havent bothered carrying on the thread in the other section
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Bluemonkey,
its not your battery thats flat, its your head
what ever, go and cry over rooney and blame all your problems on glazer, u bore me now, thats why i havent bothered carrying on the thread in the other section
Hi mate how did you get on today with runing the pump of your van batt.
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well he aint home yet if that doesnt tell you anything :o :o :o
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well he aint home yet if that doesnt tell you anything :o :o :o
it looks like he,s on line so just thought i would ask. hope it works for is sake
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sorry left computer on, it was ok, van started when i wanted, but flow would flash up bat only moved the van about 12 time for a total of about 10 miles at most, i think if sat in one spot all day might be a prob, but moving around it should be ok
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sorry left computer on, it was ok, van started when i wanted, but flow would flash up bat only moved the van about 12 time for a total of about 10 miles at most, i think if sat in one spot all day might be a prob, but moving around it should be ok
thanks for the info m8. do you think it mite be worth keeping it the way it was because like you said if stuck in one place for a long time then it could drop you in it
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i am going to carry on running off the van battery, my biggest prob is a lot of work is with in 4 miles of my houses,, worse that can happen is i need a jump start, but just running the engine for a bit shoudl be ok i hope
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Mine's about 18 months old now. It normally lasts a week or two off the split charge relay without a bench charge. It went flat on a big job where I hadn't moved the van all day. Fine once I started the engine and lucky I was working right next to it by that time because obviously you can't lock the van with the engine running and the key in the ignition, not unless you've got a spare key. I do have another backup lead to the cigarette lighter just in case. Also I normally bench charge the night before if doing a really big job, but on this occasion I forgot. Still, it had only had one days use since a bench charge. Perhaps it's life is nearly over. I think I may have shortened it in it's early days when I took it camping and ran it flat running psp's and cool boxes off it.
What's a PSP
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play station portable
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Thanks . Never seen one but understand now, gameboy xbox type thing.
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72 is good enough if charged every day. But running off the van battery is a bit risky, you might be fine for years, but let's say you have the dream round, a full days work with no moving the van. On a cold winters day you might not he able to drive off at the end as you won't have enough juice left in the battery to turn the engine.
Simon.
I totally agree. No matter that Dave Morris will tell you to the contrary. My 110 amp leisure battery went flat at the end of a big job the other day and that was with a pump controller and 30 amp intelligent split charge relay.
Your battery is well on the way out then. I have a 110 Amp leisure battery and when it was in good condition I could go on for 2 weeks or so without ever charging it, that was on split relay as well. That was on big jobs, small jobs, big days, normal days and everything in between.
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I have just found out in the last couple of days that I need a new alternator. Although it was just the pulley that's broke, I found it cheaper to get a whole new alternator. It's being fitted today so maybe that's contributed as they said the battery light was flickering at times. I 'll wait and see.
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I have just found out in the last couple of days that I need a new alternator. Although it was just the pulley that's broke, I found it cheaper to get a whole new alternator. It's being fitted today so maybe that's contributed as they said the battery light was flickering at times. I 'll wait and see.
Ah I see, that could very well be. :)