Batteries

owlets · Post by **owlets** » 18 Nov 2006, 18:13

83 Westy, battery under passenger seat and one under drives..........which is lesuire and which is normal battery?

Post by **Headley18** » 18 Nov 2006, 18:34

The one under your drivers seat is the leisure

owlets · Post by **owlets** » 18 Nov 2006, 18:39

That's what I thought, thanks Pete

Post by **sendiw** » 18 Nov 2006, 21:58

My leisure battery is under the passenger seat??? Usually the main battery has much beefier wires connected to it and if you disconnect this battery your van wont start.

Post by **sendiw** » 19 Nov 2006, 21:19

Fair enough. It should be easy enough to ID though.
Coincidently my leisure battery has given up the ghost. I have bought a power pack thingie with a 300watt inverter from QVC and hope to use that instead of a L.B. got it cheap from the QVC shop in Birchwood. There was one more left.

Post by **tonytech** » 19 Nov 2006, 21:31

Power pack thingies are OK but wont pack th Ahr of a Leisure battery.

T

Post by **sendiw** » 19 Nov 2006, 21:59

I'll give it a try, it cant be any worse than what I have at the moment.
Cheers

Post by **Andyvandy** » 19 Nov 2006, 23:10

My leisure battery is under the passenger seat and the main battery is in the engine compartment!

If your leisure battery is stuffed how will you run your inverter?

Andy

Post by **sendiw** » 19 Nov 2006, 23:33

The inverter is part of the power pack. It is the type you jump start motors with and it has a light and air compressor plus a 12volt power supply outlet which is where I hope to connect the leisure appliances to.
I can only try.

Post by **toomanytoys** » 20 Nov 2006, 09:34

Yeah... LHD or RHD.... main battery is always under the right hand seat (be it LHD or RHD)

Unless you have Diesel...

Post by **Westy.Club.Joker** » 20 Nov 2006, 20:49

Standard Westy (diesel) batteries, one in the engine bay for starting engine, one under the drivers seat (LHD) is leisure battery, second battery box under the passenger front seat for an extra leisure battery, wired through to the other one.

See Wiki for sizes and what type fit. Height is the MAIN consideration, as the battery box lids need to close so the seats can swivel, and the battery terminals MUST clear the metal box lids

Post by **busbuddy** » 21 Nov 2006, 08:09

and to confuse things even more, the leisure battery in my lhd karmann is under the passenger seat as there ain't no room under the drivers seat because the power steering/abs? stuff is under there.
Oh and my battery covers are moulded plastic.