Comment: Kimberley Karavan Lithium Battery Conversion

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Kimberley Karavan Lithium Battery Conversion

Thank you for dropping by my blog. My Prado-Karavan combined system has been set up and working for about six years with the manufacturer’s AGM battery pack in the Karavan.

Maz66

Hi Frank
Thanks for your comprehensive comments. I have a Kimberley Kamper and have been mulling over the changeover for a while also and have also seen your supplier's website and wondered about the quality of his product. They looked pretty good

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Reply By: Frank P (NSW) - Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:26

Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:26

Hi Maz,

Thanks for your comment. If you decide to go ahead with the conversion, whether from the people I used or someone else, as long as you have a BMS to provide the nrequired protection I'm sure you would be satisfied.

We have just returned from a week away with 2 fully cloudy days, 3 days of intermittent sun and only two days of good solar and no driving time for the dc-dc charger to do its thing. Running the Karavan and its fridge, plus the car fridge as a minus 10 freezer presented no problems. We did not run the generator at all for the week (national parks) and departed our last camp with 50% in the batteries.

With the old batteries we would have been looking for a generator friendly site or mains power after the frst two days of no sun.

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Frank