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Any recommendations as to where I can get a leisure battery fitted as I am a complete novice electrically. Nottingham area best but can travel

I'm in Chesterfield if you want come look at my setup? It's not too bad to do when you get your head around it.

Thank you, I've just moved now down near Cambridge . If I'm up your way soon I'll get in touch, really appreciate your help. I keep reading about it and it's slowly making sense.

I graduated from a starter battery as a leisure (which worked brilliantly to be honest) to a 'leisure, although theres plenty of debate as to whether most so-called leisure batteries really are what they claim to be. A true leisure battery will be much heavier. If you try to squeeze one in a battery box you'll always be limited by those dimensions but if you make room in the bottom of a cupboard you'll have a wider choice and in my experience, pay less too. Worth thinking about.

I should add, providing you use good cables and connectors, even a 5-pin relay (which I've had for some years now) will work fine and it only costs around a fiver for the relay. My present leisure (110ah) came from a local man who'd only had it for six months - £40.

Mine is almost identical to this. You can fit one in under 2 hours:

That's a brilliant diagram, thanks kid , but what's the no charge light ?

And if I wanted to add a charger to link up with rcd in hook up what would those connections be to ?

Tartanclaret wrote:what's the "no charge light" ?

It's the blue wire from the back of the alternator, it runs forwards up to the dash binnacle and operates the "battery not charging" light (which some folk call the "ignition light" for some reason). You just splice onto that blue wire where ever it's most convenient, to trigger the split charge relay.

Tartanclaret wrote:And if I wanted to add a charger to link up with rcd in hook up what would those connections be to ?

A mains charger, run from a hook up, is not connected as part of that circuit. I would just buy a half decent 10 ish amp "Smart" charger and hard wire it in to the hook up mains and the leisure battery. That way, whenever you are "hooked up" the battery will automatically be charging. Just need to check that the charger you have (or buy) switches on by itself when powered up, some insist you press a button to turn it on (though that is not really a big deal imho).

Brilliant, cheers ghost, I'm slowly getting more confident of having a bash

Ah you can do this.

If you get stuck, post back here. If you follow above diagram it will work. You could fit an intelligent charger but as a basic setup, the above will serve you well. Toolmart inside branches of Wickes is good for connectors - they're costly everywhere else.