What did you do to your van today?

 
Checked my eng battery levels .
After speaking with sargent yesterday disision was to bypass sargent to charge eng battery.
As was getting a big drop in battery power over night..12.9 11.8 average
So bypassed last night ..
Went bed 12.9v this morning 12.7.
Alarms set so can except .2 drop.
Not a great lover of smart charging on ec500.

My new solar array for lithium is also bypassing ec500.
Happy days I hope.
 
Mr and Mrs Tupcox said:
Checked my eng battery levels .
After speaking with sargent yesterday disision was to bypass sargent to charge eng battery.
As was getting a big drop in battery power over night..12.9 11.8 average
So bypassed last night ..
Went bed 12.9v this morning 12.7.
Alarms set so can except .2 drop.
Not a great lover of smart charging on ec500.

My new solar array for lithium is also bypassing ec500.
Happy days I hope.
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I had engine battery voltage drops 12 months ago, even with a new Yuasa Battery, when the Van was not used very much. Solved the problem with an AMT12 Battery Refresher/Charger from David at Wildebus. It has 8 charging combinations plus a 9th, user connectable via a fitted spare cable, that forces the Leisure Battery to supply 3 amps to the Engine Battery for 9 seconds in every 10, so no risk of a flat battery. And it's not asthough you're short of Solar/Lithium power ... AMT12 was £65 plus fitting and was the best bit of kit I've bought

Steve
 
marchie said:
I had engine battery voltage drops 12 months ago, even with a new Yuasa Battery, when the Van was not used very much. Solved the problem with an AMT12 Battery Refresher/Charger from David at Wildebus. It has 8 charging combinations plus a 9th, user connectable via a fitted spare cable, that forces the Leisure Battery to supply 3 amps to the Engine Battery for 9 seconds in every 10, so no risk of a flat battery. And it's not asthough you're short of Solar/Lithium power ... AMT12 was £65 plus fitting and was the best bit of kit I've bought

Steve
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Hopefully we are sorted but if not I will take advice on board.thanks
I new I would have few problems with a van with sargent as our old swift kontki was a nightmare to keep all batteries topped up.

We're as our last van bailey had endless power from 2x125ah lead acids..and 200w solar.
 
Sorted Truma fault code number E632 H on our combi 6 looked at several ya tube videos but they were for older models but probably the same principle.
I could not reset/reboot the boiler by depressing the brown micro switch after trying several different procedures, then discovered that it only tripped when I plugged in EHU called Truma Tech help line but the main lady was out to lunch but got some advice from the lady that took the call who reconed it was the 240v fuse that had blown. Checked all this after removing the cover but the 12v and 240v fuses were ok then noticed that there was a trip switch on the electrical element which had popped out so reset and hey presto Uncle Bobs the kiddy fiddler.
 
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Truma fault code 632 is stating that the over temperature water switch has triggered. On the boiler you need to push with the flat end of a pen into the hole shown on the photo below. There is a small button inside.
Then you need to press and hold the small brown reset button on the pcb (just near to the red flashing led) until the orange light flashes, release it and you will hear some clicks on the pcb. This should clear the fault code.
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Completed the abandoned flushing of the Fresh Water Tank on the 'rinse cycle'. Scottish Gas Network ['SGN'] are replacing the Mains, and, as I began to fill the Fresh Water Tank yesterday, a contractor strolled up with a 2 stroke Disc Cutter, spraying tarmac, 2 stroke and brick fumes everywhere. We have a Plague of Gas Engineers who have dug lots of holes in the A921 over about 300m, because they are ahead of the program, whereas the Installation Team are behind schedule, and nobody, least of all SGN, has a clue when the Installation and the Remediation Teams will return to the Project Plan. The fact that the Fibre Broadband Engineers are working about 100m away from the SGN furthest outpost, approaching from the opposite direction, closing the gap, makes the Broadband Engineers a racing certainty to rip up what will be the newly repaired road surface ...

'The Nymphomaniacs Guide to Project Management: Straight from One Cock Up to the Next' springs to mind ...

Steve
 
marchie said:
Completed the abandoned flushing of the Fresh Water Tank on the 'rinse cycle'. Scottish Gas Network ['SGN'] are replacing the Mains, and, as I began to fill the Fresh Water Tank yesterday, a contractor strolled up with a 2 stroke Disc Cutter, spraying tarmac, 2 stroke and brick fumes everywhere. We have a Plague of Gas Engineers who have dug lots of holes in the A921 over about 300m, because they are ahead of the program, whereas the Installation Team are behind schedule, and nobody, least of all SGN, has a clue when the Installation and the Remediation Teams will return to the Project Plan. The fact that the Fibre Broadband Engineers are working about 100m away from the SGN furthest outpost, approaching from the opposite direction, closing the gap, makes the Broadband Engineers a racing certainty to rip up what will be the newly repaired road surface ...

'The Nymphomaniacs Guide to Project Management: Straight from One Cock Up to the Next' springs to mind ...

Steve
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Why they can't coordinate and work together beats me, boils my pee when they lay a new road surface and some clown comes along and digs a track all the way down the new surface.
 
'Bad News/Good News' start to the day.

Email from Camper UK 'Did you get the [£42+] Water Tank Cap we sent some days ago?'
'No, wasn't expecting it until next week'
'Aah, we'll send you another via Courier on Monday'

Good News is that yesterday's order for a Bottle of DScale for the Water Heater, plus a 400g Puriclean Tub for the next Water Tank sterilisation arrived mid-morning. More kit for the Stock Cupboard; might get round to using it if it stops raining at some point :)

Steve
 
Our van unexpectedly passed its MOT last week after standing since 2019 so I have treated it to treatment with G3, polish, wax, and a coating to protect it, today I cleaned the roof, I cannot believe how dirty it was but we live in a bungalow so we never see the roof, there is a lot of new houses being built close to us and the roof was full of brick dust, all clean now but it took 4 hours:mad:
 
Mr and Mrs Tupcox said:
Started cleaning roof
Plastic solar panel feet sticking them down with sikoflex 522 is it best to screew as well .
And seal the screews tops to.
Some say do both Some just stick.
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The glue is only sitting a a surface of paint or get coat, mine are bolted through and well sealed, screws would be ok but use stainless ones.
Best way to bring cables in is under the panel using a marine gland, miles better than the daft units sold on ebay.deck g a.png
 
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