Re: Totally off topic - batteries question
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Hi Phil, I feel your pain, there are many complex issues with solar and few understand it. I live and run a workshop completely off grid so I'm personally involved with solar stress. Are you in UK? This is a long shot..... Bimblesolar.com They have a help and guidance section on there we'd page, this might help you. If not they have a consultant that works for them, his name is James, he is a complete solar geek. I don't know if bumble do consultancy to non bumble issues, but if you could get to talk to him he would give you sound?advice.
Kindest regards
Jonathan Samways
Sadly? cannot access the battery area to take meaningful pics of the kit that lies there, under the seats. It would involve removing the seats which I am trying to avoid doing.
But the van is new, was manufactured by Westfalia, the terminals that I can see look pristine,? The voltages I measure are taken separately across each battery's terminals.? And only one shows any voltage drop in use of the 12v electrics.
It has just come back again from the van retailer and when I tackled them again about this, I was told (yesterday), in no uncertain terms, that the technician had confirmed that both batteries were working together.
Again, to a thicko like me with an aged brain, are my voltage observations of my two 12v batteries powering a 12v system (so must be in parallel I had presumed) where only one drops its voltage, compaitble with them "working together"?
Is there any complex bit of kit that would enable this to happen?? And if there is, why?? Why not just wire them together in the standard straightforward and simple fashion?
Phil
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