3rd battery question

Hello Steve

ps. Ended up buying a new oven, could get a part anywhere.

cheers for the help, might run the extra isolator anyway

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Hi Sand Man,

I am assuming that your cranking battery is not an AGM and I don't believe the Thumper is an AGM ( correct me if I am wrong ).

I read somewhere that it wasn't good to use AGM and non AGM on the same system especially in parallel.

From your description it would appear that you do use dissimilar batteries on one system. Can I also assume that you haven't encountered any problems with this setup ?

I am considering adding a standard battery as an aux to my cranking calcium to assist in winching operations and running 2 fridges on the road. I also want to put a 100ah AGM in the trailer and connect it in parallel with the aux via an anderson plug. What do you think ?

Cheers.....Taz

Hi Taz,

Yes, I have a mixture of batteries. The starting battery is an Exide Extreme (wet cell) while both the auxiliary battery (Exide Orbital) and the Thumper are both AGM batteries.

No problem with mixing types, at least not with the Piranha DBS150 smart controller.

You may have also read that it is not recommended that you put an AGM battery in the engine bay. Well that's where mine is and I haven't experienced a problem.

As far as your other query, I don't have a winch to worry about but I am of the understanding that a winch should be run from the starting battery and only when the engine is running, whilst other equipment such as fridges are best run from a deep cycle auxiliary battery, preferably an AGM type to provide quicker and more total recharge capability.

hello Sandman

my 2nd and 3rd are deep cycle gel cyle/cranking batteries. I might put the extra management in as it will allow the 2nd battery to charge first before hooking up the 3rd.

thank mate

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Hi Leigh

Thanks mate, I will look at what accessories i will hook up to which battery, I hadn't thought of that. Not much uses charging the second battery 2nd if the 3rd is draining more than the 2nd hahaha mouthful

cheers

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thats some battery power.. just wonderif not having the second controller in will put too much strain on the 2nd bat.

thanks

Adam

Crazie, I'm no auto leccy but my way of thinking is this......if both aux batteries are hooked together and used for a fridge etc, you will have almost double the running time [effectively acting like one big battery] and of course double the re-charge time, which could be a problem if you don't have the means to give them a full charge ie; being on the road every day, or having a battery charger.

On the other hand, using a third isolator could reduce your chances of re-charging the 3rd battery by quite a bit, assuming the isolator will only click in when the 2nd battery is over 12.5v [or thereabouts] which might take a few hours depending on how much its discharged !!!

Cheers,

Muzz

Hi Trev

Almost as bad as what lift, tyres and fridge are you running....lol hahaha

dont care if people have a go...i will track them down hahaha

cheers mate

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Hi Derek

thanks mate, i have sent an email. sorry forgot a few things. Cable size is 12mm core/wire size, 2 under the bonnet, 1 in the rear storage system. main battery is wet cell, 2nd and 3rd are deep cycle gels. both isolators/chargers do not kick in until the battery it is charging from reaches 13.1volt and then a 5 min delay. think the rest is in the the email

thank you

Adam

you can set mine up in the GU too when ya finished..

LOL Truckster.

I think the word needed here is, PLEASE !!!

I helped him pick out his bike... ;)

But then I probably only owe him 10 things now :(

Hi Peter

Thanks mate

dual purpose for the management, 1 to manage the charge and then 2nd to isolate.

Hope you are well and things that have been fixed are causing no worries

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Thanks Adam, That thing on the front is all fine but did you hear about the right rear wheel problem - like coming adrift on the west gate. Saga not over yet. changing to steel wheels and new tyres before the Cape trip next month.

Peter

I raise the (6) battery dude to seven and will take a look at yours Crazie. (ROFLMAO)

You have all lost the plot except good old - Peter McG (Member, Melbourne) - who is spot on.

Thats how you will see my third battery wired next time you see my standard Troopy.

want it cause i can hahaha