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.
Quote from: SherwoodCleaningSe on October 20, 2010, 06:31:20 pm72 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.
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,
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
Bluemonkey,its not your battery thats flat, its your head
Quote from: ARCHER on October 20, 2010, 10:47:53 pmBluemonkey,its not your battery thats flat, its your headwhat 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
well he aint home yet if that doesnt tell you anything
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
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.