deep cycle battery thingy

Phil,

It's a 12v powerboard ;) It does not come with a battery, you need to add your own.

Hope that helps,
Andrew

hey phil.
Didnt expect a reply tonight, was just about to head off to lala land and check for replies tomorrow.
from what i can see it is not a battery, nor does it have any stored power. It is like a power board to attach to battery set up. Plug things into box.

Sorry guys maybe I should be in la la land -lol.

It’s an interesting concept but you need to determine what use you would put the device.

If you do hit and run camping i.e. move everyday then I think I would prefer permanent vehicle mounted plugs, so gear doesn’t come out of the vehicle only to be repacked the next day.

If however you're in one spot for say 10 days then it might be useful to run light leads, chargers and such - that way ensuring someone doesn’t say unplug the fridge to charge their iPod and then forget to plug it back in.

I tend to favour vehicle mounted plugs and lots of them.

Cheers
Blind as a bat.

yeah was thinking along your lines mate. seems well priced, all those bits and pieces add up, and they use 8mm cable too!! i like it. Might give him a call tomorrow and sus him out, but looks good.

Rang bloke today.
yes you are right about cable thickness rating being 7.92mm2, or as he said 8 b&s with 112 strands.

He did mention that the size of the standard fuses were to be dropped to 10amp as you said, they are too big. He did recommend to change according to your appliance if needed. I guess its hard for them to fuse a socket if they dont know what is going into it.

I also asked about the need to have so many fuses when the plugs themselves have fuses. He said that although there are many things that do have fuses in there plugs, there a many without. He said with only one master fuse, If one of these appliances without a fuse in ciggy plug malfunctions for whatever reason and blows the one fuse, then everything else is cut off from power.

Made sense to me. I would hate to be out fishing for the day to, to get back and find one of the kids has blown the fuse trying to plug in there ipod charger or whatever, and beers gone warm GRRRR!

I did however, for the exercise, go through my 12volt camp gear to check which plugs did have fuses. To my surprise i found a majority of the things i would use in it, have no fuses in plug including 3x Primus fluro lights, shower pump, and fridge (yeah yeah," what fridge doesnt have a fuse in plug "you ask. My repco job . Had 3 years never let me down though, works awesome at fraction of cost.)

After plenty of thought i reckon its good. I think based on my talk to bloke, it is far superior to those 3 way ciggy lighter things. Wiring wise, fusing, voltmeter.....I think i will get one.