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I thought that the whole point of Brexit was to take back control of our voltage 😀😀

Have Votronic cancelled your sponsorship deal? 😀😀

If both van and hab batteries are same size there is a school of thought that suggests moving hab to starter when buying new leisure before it's completely gone. Starter batteries have a much easier time only being called upon to work for a few seconds at a time normally getting recharged...

From what I've read AGM and Gel are a bit sensitive to heat - so in southern Spain and Morocco you may think about that. Apparently it was one of real reasons that BMW moved batteries into the boot away from their congested engine bays. My Skoda has token insulation around the battery under the...

I've taken mine out as per the instructions and whilst a bit tight I never felt that I was forcing it.

I always insist on hand tightening of wheel nuts before torquing rather than impact wrench followed by a check that the torque applied is not less than the correct figure!!

Yes - I think they do it to save weight and probably money. My latest car just had an air pump and some miracle gunge - so the first thing I did was order a wheel and tyre off the internet. As it was pre Brexit delivery from Germany only took two days. Of course I've not used it 😀😀 but I'm...

Very impressive DIY skills and electrochemical knowledge

Only 90% stood? At least with a motorhome standing time is 'productive' when we're out and about.

Great description of the conundrum. I do lots of twice a day 5 miles each way journeys but I also do 300 mile journeys fairly often. We might swap one of our cars for a runabout electric of it was more expensive than a second hand diesel. Or should we keep the diesel Passat for short local...

That is a bit short! However given the average journey length is much much less than the 300 miles deemed essential by the manufacturers (or more accurately users) means that EVs are far too big and heavy.

@BigDave Glad it was an easy DIY fix in the end.

Thanks for pointing out non AES fridge - However I don't think that they have a pilot light. They only have one burner and a sensor to control the gas flow. On the older models you have to hold a button down which allows gas to flow and be ignited - when the flame is hot enough for the capillary...

That makes sense I suppose. It also means you'll be able to listen to the radio while the tow truck arrives 😀

I suppose when we are completely all electric there will only be one battery to worry about and we'll have the choice of using it to get around or running our habitation stuff - maybe then we'll only need one profile for our charging system 😀

Thanks for photo. I'm not sure what you mean when you say 'pilot light working". On your fridge there's only one outlet for gas and that's the main burner. So if you have any flame for more than a few seconds then the solenoid and thermocouple are working. If you are not getting any cooling...

Indeed that's why the system defaults to Leisure. @centerman This set of wiring diagrams might help track down what's happening on your system

I'm afraid I'm going to disagree about EC200 control unit fitted in this case - according to the 2005 instructions it will change from Starter to Leisure at 10.9V There is no mention of automatically switching to Starter - rather the default on energizing the hab electrics is LB.

This switchover from leisure to starter is a bit 'risky' - if wilding you could get stranded somewhere. If I recall correctly Sargent controller will disconnect from starter battery if the voltage drops too low when it's running habitation system. Perhaps you have a Voltage Sensitive Relay that...

Yes - I was being a bit simplistic about when the gas fires up. It's my understanding that one of the main reasons for the delay is reduce the likelihood of there being a naked flame burning on petrol forecourts. Going back to the early posts we were told that it was 'months' before the...