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#16

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:06 pm
by crow (deleted)

Here you go Pete;
http://www.batterystuff.com/kb/articles/...gel-vs-agm.html
http://batteryuniversity.com/
http://www.rst-engr.com/kitplanes/KP0204/KPtext.pdf

#17

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:25 pm
by hob (deleted)

I don't have one and everything works fine without one as long as you have hookup

Without hookup the lights and pumps work if you stay plugged into the car but you have to be careful not to run the car battery down ....................then the car won't start

Vauxhall Insignia Sri towing 2006 Triton 430 import

#18

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:39 pm
by Aaron Calder •

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Quote: Pep� Le Pew wrote in post #15
I've never been convinced by this 'leisure battery' malarkey anyway, but then nobody died and made me an expert.

No, but that didn't stop you being a smartarse, did it?

Forum Administrator
2003 Triton 420 and Audi A4 2.0Tfsi S-line SE Cabriolet

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#19

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:56 pm
by Pepé Le Pew •

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Quote: Aaron Calder wrote in post #18
No, but that didn't stop you being a smartarse, did it?

I'm only trying to be nice and to help someone else.

It's no fault of mine if the concepts of niceness and helpfulness are ones you appear to find particularly exercising

#20

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:28 pm
by Piccolo (deleted)

boys, boys . . .

#21

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:36 pm
by eribanaut •

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If you only stay on hook up sites, why do you bother with the battery at all?, you are just pulling dead weight around.
We have never had one in our Triton and everything works fine [ including the LED lights with no flicker [ use ac/dc bulbs ]
Dave

#22

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:47 pm
by Randa france •

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Quote: eribanaut wrote in post #21
If you only stay on hook up sites, why do you bother with the battery at all?, you are just pulling dead weight around.
We have never had one in our Triton and everything works fine [ including the LED lights with no flicker [ use ac/dc bulbs ]
Dave

That's interesting Dave ( and Hob).

Does that mean that your vans have never had a battery fitted or do you just not bother carrying one? Do you know if a van modified to take a battery can operate without one?
Randa

1999 Eriba Troll 530 pushing a VW Touran 2L TDi Match

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#23

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 4:34 pm
by hob (deleted)

Mine has never had one.

Vauxhall Insignia Sri towing 2006 Triton 430 import

#24

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 5:47 pm
by Pepé Le Pew •

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Quote: Randa france wrote in post #22
Do you know if a van modified to take a battery can operate without one?

I'm a bit reluctant to state the bleedin' obvious - especially if that horrid Mr Cauldron bloke accuses me of being a smartarse again - but why don't you disconnect the battery, plug the van into the mains and try it?

On a not unrelated matter, the battery in our van doesn't act to 'smooth out' the coarse 12v from the BIP as it appears to do in some people's vans. The transformer windings which supply the 12v AC to the lighting circuit do just that whether the battery is there or not. That's why I had to replace the halogen G4 capsules in the torpedo fittings with LEDs which could cope with AC and DC as well as a range of voltage rather than 12v dead.

The more I see written about the dratted BIP/transformer/battery/charger arrangement the more it strikes me that you'd struggle to find two vans in which the electrics were the same.

I reckon the blokes at the factory just used whatever bits were to hand at the time, and then installed them completely at random.

They make jolly good cheese those French geezers, but they're crap at electrics.

Heck, you've only got to look at any Peugeot, Renault or Citroën to see that...

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#25

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 6:41 pm
by Randa france •

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Zitat
I'm a bit reluctant to state the bleedin' obvious - especially if that horrid Mr Cauldron bloke accuses me of being a smartarse again - but why don't you disconnect the battery, plug the van into the mains and try it?

Just because that Mr Cauldron is having a go at you, there's no need to pick on me....
The "bleeding obvious" had occurred to me but this blinking rain is getting in the way of doing anything useful out of doors. The grass hasn't re-grown around the van as yet and it's still a bit muddy down there so I was hoping that someone on here might already know.
I take your point however that no two Eribas are alike and if I could lay hands on a photo of my Zig Unit (is that what it's called?) it bears no resemblance to the ones I've seen in other Eribas.
JohnE once saw photos of it however and rated it
Randa

1999 Eriba Troll 530 pushing a VW Touran 2L TDi Match

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#26

RE: Leisure Battery

in Anything Eriba-related Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:26 pm
by eribanaut •

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That's interesting Dave ( and Hob). Does that mean that your vans have never had a battery fitted or do you just not bother carrying one? Do you know if a van modified to take a battery can operate without one?
Randa

Mine is a Dutch import and has never had one, and no I'm afraid I don't know.
Dave