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As some of you will know last year I had a motor mover fitted to the Triton.
The 110 Ah battery lives under a rear seat which becomes the bed in a 430 Triton, and as I like to leave the bed made up (mattress topper etc) getting under there with a digital test meter to check the battery voltage is ok, ........ can be a bit of a pain.

When I fitted a battery to the old Puck i bought one of those cheap (made in china) digital voltage indicators for a couple of quid which promptly melted when attached tp the battery terminals.

So this time I'm looking a bit more upmarket

Werbung: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222422622245?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

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Is that one OK?

I would hopefully be mounting it on the side of the wardrobe by drilling through into the cavity behind the gas heater and running the wires up the inside to the meter where it would fit in a hole cut in the side wall.

Is it as simple as just connecting the 2 wires to the 2 battery terminals?

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Is that one OK?

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Quote: hob wrote in post #1

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Is it as simple as just connecting the 2 wires to the 2 battery terminals?

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Thanks John, next doors cat probably knows more about electrics than I do.. ............... maybe I should have asked her?

Hi Nev. I'm thinking of doing the same. Lifting up the bed to check the battery is a pain.

At the moment my multimeter says the battery is at 12.9V and has been for 24 hours. However when I reconnect the Eriba supply (Schaudt 409) it is being charged at 14.4V. Something doesn't seem right. Shouldn't it have dropped to maintainance rate of about 13.?V?

TonyP

Thanks Pete. I have the same instruction pages but they're very basic and don't give any detail on the charging regime.
TonyP

Thanks Pete, that is really helpful. GCHQ is busy checking up on you so I tried to understand it myself.
Now it begins to make sense.
My battery is a Banner AGM so in the charge regime I Uo U the Uo stage registers as 14.1V for an extended period but the current is reducing during this stage. That's what I had not realised.
So as you suggested I will go back to the bench with the Ctek charger then return it to the Schaudt and record what happens.
Thanks again.
TonyP

I reckon you are right about the vibration issue. It's interesting about the mover control box. Was there a fault?
I'm wondering if my assumption of a battery fault could actually be something else.
TonyP

Well I ordered one Sunday afternoon and it arrived today.

Here it is next to a spare camera card for scale.

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Wired it up temporary to test it with some left over motorbike cable.

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Changed my mind about running a load of cable up the inside of the wardrobe and will probably mount it on the side of the storage area near the power switches.

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Presumably it uses very little power and stays on all the time?

Good idea to mount it low down otherwise the light may be distracting.

They were all LED on fleabay Looked at loads of pages of them.
At least fitting it there means the cables (and the inside of the meter) will not get in the way in the wardrobe and I can still see it without dragging all the bedding out of the way to use a multimeter.