I am hoping that Commercial Fords are better built than Ford cars, also having worked on good cars and Fords since 1970. Did I mention the deliberate design feature of current Transits where rain water is deliberately poured from the windscreen trough directly on to a multi pin electrical connector and on to the engine ECU? A bit of washing machine drain hose soon sorts that problem
My 180w solar panel is enough to charge my two 90ah leisure batteries and the starting battery. I leave the wardrobe led on so as to cycle with a little discharge. My solar controller prevents any overcharging and switches on & off as neccesary
Yours at that age will be a panther. They had a faulty batch of injectors a while back. Putting your number into fords data base should give you info .some got changed. Panther has been out since 2016 .son in law has one since then and has had no problems with it.
No need to leave a light on to cycle, you control unit should do that, in winter there is about 3/6 weeks the solar panels wont bring the batts up to speed, a drive with the altanator charge will bring them up, or a on board smart charger if plugged in.
I thought it would but I read somewhere a small load would help. I know the controllers are good at looking after batteries & not over charging or letting them run too low. My van often gets left after the MoT in late Nov until Feb or March without being started, or run a few miles. So far no problems for past 3 years.
Leaving standing is bad for hydrolic brake cylinders esp the rears, best to take a small fast run of say 30/40 miles at least once a week to clean the oil and wash the inside of the engine, also splashes g box bearings etc.
What wardrobe led is that Eric? I bought a chausson with a peculiar switch with a led in the wardrobe and a letter from the original dealer saying it must be switched off when driving. Giving credit where it may not be due I assumed this is an after market mod, I couldn't imagine a main stream manufacturer expecting a user to remember to switch it off every time they went anywhere. I binned the switch and substituted a relay.
Why a relay for such a small current draw, notrequired for led bulbs.
This relay is to break the circuit from solar panels to batteries, not for LEDs. The original dealer gave no explanation for the switch to the first purchaser that I can find, and the electrician at the dealer I bought it from said he can't see any need for a switch to do this. I can only think that the original dealer must have had a bit of bother with vehicle electrics in the past, maybe when 'smart' alternators came out, without b-b chargers for some reason.
You dont require it at all ,leave connected 24/7 as they are ment to be, a relay is for a high current device which a small switch with light contacts cannot handle, im sure you know this anyway.
