Thursday, Feb 10, 2005 at 23:46
ARB don't do a dual battery setup for the Pathy but Piranha do a tray that will take 2 small cranking batteries. They just need to take a nick out of the front guard to fit it in and turn the batteries side on. Main problem is that you can only fit 2 small batteries and it is a very expensive set up.
I ended up putting a 100 a/h AGM in a battery box in the rear of the Pathy on a shelf I made to go over the drivers side wheel
well (unusable space otherwise IMO) The battery box has 2 hella outlets and a bank of 3 cigi sockets all wired through a 50 amp auto breaker. It is charged in the vehicle via a Redarc wired up with 150 amp cable to the rear, joined with an Anderson plug at the rear so that I can take the battery out when not in use or at
camp. I use the AGM mainly to run the Waeco CF50 and a Versalite.I also have a hella plug on the box for use with an 80 watt solar panel (2 x 40 watt hinged) whilst camped. All up the battery set up was $650 installed which was cheaper than the Piranha solution and much higher A/H's than the small second battery they would have fitted.
In addition, I could not fit the Piranha tray in my Pathy engine bay as I have a Surflow pump for the Twine shower mounted off the existing battery tray and there is nowhere else for it to go (some mount the showers behind the Pathy bumper but I can't as I have a Sahara bar and winch on).
Just another option for you if your not committed to an under hood solution for your power needs.
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