Dual Battery Charging

Yummmmmmmm.......might have to grab a beer to wash it down.

Cheers

And I haven't even had a drink yet, that should read.
I have a manual isolator and charge mine with the isolator on so it charges both batterys

Gday,
Ive always disconected any battery before charging.
Are you saying its fine to charge your battery without disconnecting leads , as long as you dont try to start your engine?
Ive got an 80 series petrol....couldnt it spike the computer or stuff something electrical?

Cheers

Never disconnected my battery leads except on my yacht, besides the isolator being off, I would still have to disconnect the negative as the charger used to eat out my anodes because it was a cheap half wave unit.

At work if we get a flat battery which is every 2nd day (leaveing lights on sure flattens them) We just bring another cruiser up besides it and use jumper leads with the engine running. This is the same for the other units at work, 79/200series/Nissan patrol 3litres/narvaras and a rodeo,all of which have computors.

Cheers

Same here. I have 3 batteries on the Patrol and a permanently mounted/wired 15amp 3 stage Durst battery charger. The charger has 2 separate outlet circuits. Two of the batteries are permanently connected (for starting the big Chev diesel plus all the other usual chores of a stater battery), whilst the 3rd battery is a Fullriver 120a/h Gel which runs things like fridge, lights, HF etc etc.

Now, the 3 stage charger is switched on whenever the Patrol is sitting idle in the carport (which is far more often than I would like!!! hahaha) and I have never disconnected the batteries whilst charging.

Like Rockape, I don't start the donk with the 240 volts on....well I have done it by accident a couple of times...... but hasn't caused any hassles.

Of course, my patrol doesn't have any computer chips to get fried either.

Cheers mate

Roachie

Gday Roachie,
Permanently mounted under the bonnet battery charger.....mmmmmm, thats got me thinking?????

STOP IT!!!!!! Ive got enough under my bonnet....Ill go back to mounting it on the wall of my shed.

LOL
Cheers
Hairy

Hairy,
I should have added that I only have space under the bonnet for ONE battery. The other 2 batts plus all the associated leccy gear (240v charger and the Arrid Twin Charge etc) are all located in the cargo box on the back of the dual cab.

Cheers

Roachie

Thanks Bill,
Answered my next question too.

Cheers

Yeah mate...and like I think Derek said in a previous post....as long as you conect the earth last and dont arc anything it shouldnt be any different than your alternator charging it while your driving.

Cheers
Hairy

I was thinking about doing that with my solar panel ????
I could do with another plug toward the front of my car anyway.
Cheers

The cable going to the outlets just needs to be heavy enough for the current going in from the charger or panels.
Obviously can't hook a 20amp charger up a 10amp cigarette socket circuit, but the current from a couple of regulated solar panels won't be enough to cause a problem.

I have a 40amp fused 8Ga cable from each battery to the cab and canopy so I just hook up to any of my outlets.

Yeah...Im convinced too, Im going to make something up today.

Cheers