Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:58
not sure why you would need to rewire it or remove it anyway. raps has heavier cable which you can connect to either battery by just relocating where you terminate it under the bonnet. also has many features in the unit itself as mentioned. its basically what most people do when running larger cable except for the bonus features on the raps unit. engel make something similar for theirs too.
i think my waeco is the same model as yours and i also have the raps setup. if waeco is set to high it should cut off at 12.5V and at low should be 11.4V - from memory. you do have to have enough voltage being put back into the batteries from the car when its running. have you checked what it is, not just as soon as its started, but also after it has warmed up? i am having issues with my petrol 120 prado not putting out enough volts after its warmed up. starts out at 14.04V then drops rapidly after it warms up (and drops even more if i have spotties or fogs on also) so i need to
check my alternator etc is working correctly. i know some people fit a diode to their diesels to increase the amount of voltage their car produces but not sure about it being an issue on petrol prados like
mine, and i dont know about patrols either whether there is any issue there for your model.
i think there is a patrol
forum where it may be worth asking the same question. it may also be worth reconnecting the raps cable to main battery and checking what happens to the waeco on it and see if you have same results as when its connected to the aux battery. i will be interested in what you find out with yours and will post up what happens with
mine when i get time to
check it out further, cheers....
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