Upgrade plans for you motorhome in 2019?

Wully said:
2 100 amp Lithium batteries they are slowly coming down in price just have too be brave and press the buy now button
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Cheapest I have seen for these is about £700 each and they don’t recommend fitting them in series or parallel as it buggers up the battery management system. How are people getting round this?
Anyway, I fitted a couple of new LDF90’s in place of the original AGM battery. Both are under the passenger seat with an inverter next to the seat base, but I am thinking of locating the second battery in the garage and fitting my psw inverter next to it with a remote switch and a couple of remote sockets in the van to tidy everything up
Then, a second 100w solar panel
 
Air suspension to take it from 3500 to 3850. Extra USB sockets in bedroom for charging and Pure Seista reading alarm. Home built bike rack in garage to replace the vulnerable one on the back!
 
Ok where is the cheapest place to buy Victron lithium batteries, probably need to change my two 12v lead acid shortly so now would be the time to bite the bullet.
 
New drop down 15"television, ours has given up completely after been threatening for some time now - it picks its time to completely go
 
A bull bar? They are pedestrian and cyclist killers. They were invented, I am told, in Australia where they were called roo bars and the idea was to leave DEAD, non suffering, roos rather than having the place strewn with injured animals.
Harry
 
Steveandjulie said:
Were thinking of getting a different van current kangoo pop top is too small Will start looking in the new year
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Are you planning to do a self build or are you wanting to by a professionally converted van? It might be worth your while having a look at the Renault Traffic range of vans as they convert very well indeed, are very usefully bigger than a Kangoo and yet they still drive almost like a car.
 
Molly 3 said:
Do you have to add on the price for lithiam charger's ?
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nabsim said:
Yes you would have to check everything to do with charging the batteries Caz, alternator, cable from alternator/starter battery to leisure batteries, mains chargers and all cabling between them and the leisure batteries and all fuses in those circuits.

My understanding is you can use all the power down to almost empty (although I dont think is recommended below 80% or it starts to reduce voltage at that?) then when you go to charge it will try to pull the pull battery capacity. Great in you can potentially have bank fully charge in an hour but potential disaster if someone just replaces their existing batteries with lithium. I think the risk is more the alternator/starter battery than the mains charger as when the engine starts the alternator will push full output. The charger and any solar will just output what it has I think. I also think you would have to bypass any existing power distribution like EBL, Sargent etc but not too sure on that.

My understanding may be flawed but Phil or someone else will correct me where I am wrong.
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I have installed LiFePO4 without bypassing the EBL. Schaudt said all I needed to do was remove the 12V 20A charging fuse from the EBL and then wire the lithium friendly mains charger to the battery (Sterling 40A). This leaves everything working as normal including trickle charge to engine battery and mains light on panel but stops the original charger getting in the way. I also didn’t trust the alternator to provide the right voltage/amps and installed a Battery to Battery Charger. I chose the Votronic VCC 1212-45 because it has EBL compatible settings. The BtoB intercepts the wire going into the EBL and uses the internal separation relay. Everything works just fine and recharges the battery very quickly. The original Hymer wiring from the engine battery was fine too. No idea about Sargent units and UK vans which may have different wiring.
 
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Wully said:
2 100 amp Lithium batteries they are slowly coming down in price just have too be brave and press the buy now button
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Totally reccomend lithium batts. I’ve eza 130A lithium batts (& 1000w eza inverter) in mine & they are fantastic!
 
We have a new to us A class and the drop down bed doesn’t have a privacy curtain so would like to get one fitted. The only accessory it doesn’t have is an external gas point so will get that done too.
During the winter I have also been a bit disappointed with the headlights & full beam so would like to look into how I can improve these.
 
Trotter said:
Nice build Rockburner, took me a minute to understand the need of a door in the gas cupboard. Then it dawned on me, your gas locker is on the left, n/s. I’m a bit slow(er) today. Mine’s on the right. The way I’ve got my bottles makes it a bit of a faff, reaching in for the main, refillable, but it works for me.
Is yours a self build or a tailor made?
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Factory built by Knaus (sold under the Wiensberg brand). We bought it as an ex-hire, only 18 months old and in very good nick.
 
Millie Master said:
Are you planning to do a self build or are you wanting to by a professionally converted van? It might be worth your while having a look at the Renault Traffic range of vans as they convert very well indeed, are very usefully bigger than a Kangoo and yet they still drive almost like a car.
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No won't be doing a self build best leave that to someone who knows what their doing .have been looking at a few traffic on eBay that's been converted they seem quite popular and you can get pop top roof for them drivelodge who converted my kangoo do them
 
Going to fit my refillable gas bottles soon,not much use sitting in the garage at home.
 
oppy said:
Might just give ours a wash and maybe mow the green roof.

Though, if anyone is upgrading their heater and water heater and providing they still work, may we have first dibs on them please, ta
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oppy said:
Might just give ours a wash and maybe mow the green roof.

Though, if anyone is upgrading their heater and water heater and providing they still work, may we have first dibs on them please, ta
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im going to try saw fee ga, has any body tried, on thr roof i mean, pj
 
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