Club 80-90 Forums

*****CAREFUL! you can indeed fit a 190mm tall form factor leisure battery, but when you slide the passenger seat back after fitting it into the battery well, the passenger seat chassis will clobber the battery terminal posts, create a very robust short circuit and start a fire. BE CAREUL!******** By...

+1 for VwCampercurtains.

Good service, good curtains.

Ed.

Glad its sorted. One thing on the 12V connection: the fridge shouldn't be hooked up to the leisure battery. Its a 75W electrical heater element - which means at 12V it'll be drawing ~6amps. That'll flatten a decent leisure battery in 10 hours on its own. The 2-way fridges were only ever really desig...

Those bits of tinware can be had from VWHeritage. They come from Germany (VW classic), and they are heat deflectors that fit between the sump and the heat exchangers. 2.0 Aircooled yeh? Ping me a PM and I'll find you the part numbers as I bought those very items last year. Think I've got them writte...

OK, you'll be much better off fitting the temperature sensor in the sump. The reading you get will reflect the bulk oil temperature much more closely. No-one really puts temp senders in the gallery feed. Pressure, sure, but the temp sender needs to go in the sump. If you have a steel sump (i.e. an I...

You'll be needing a uprocessor IDE then! I use Arduino.

Best cable run would be out the bottom of one battery bay, across under the floor and up into the other. Use big cable. Like 50-100A. Remember to clad the cable in chafe-resistant sleeving and grommet any holes it passes through. Battery shorts of that scale are baaaaad news. ~8.5 Megajoules in thos...

Where does the starter battery live if you plan to put a leisure battery under each seat?

I think its a good plan, but big batteries only delays the moment when you run out. Enough solar power can ensure you never do.....

I've got 200W of solar, and its awesome.

On something like a diesel you could put a trigger wheel on the crank pulley and use a variable reluctance or a Hall effect sensor. This will produce a pulse train proportional to engine speed, and a microprocessor can run a frequency counter code to operate a gauge or readout. Almost all efi system...

Too right. I thought I was being well clever. Gonna pack up my toys and trudge home now. Bastards.

Only kiddin! There's some seriously good work here. Hats off to you!

tricky one this. you can either connect in series (if the Zig can handle 24V input off the leisure system and DC-DC convert it to 12V for the load) or parallel. Series works well if the Zig is sophisticated enough to do the voltage conversion, and parallel is the way to go if you want it simple. Tro...

power distribution panels like the Zig tend to be the link between the battery and the leisure electrics, so one loose connection on the back of the Zig could very well mean no lectrickery. Finding bad connections is a pain in the a*** and it takes time, but its cheeeeeeeeeeeeapp, and more often tha...

interesting! I hadnt heard of scangauge - I guess it relies entirely on an EOBD connex in the van though? It makes sense to as otherwise you end up duplicating sensors.

Hi all. I want a rev counter for my bus. I'm well pi**ed off with the idea of spending 100 notes for a dodgy used one off a watercooled bus with a water temp gauge that I wont use. Soooooo, I bought a microprocessor (ATmega 2560 for interested geeks like me) development board and a backlit LCD, and ...

Well, at 6pm this evening in sunny north Hampshire I put some load directly on the leisure battery, and the solar charge ammeter went up to 4.2A. Considering the season and the fact that the sun is now quite low in the sky, I'll take that! In the middle of a sunny August day (!) with a leisure batte...