Day van effort

[miccheck1516]

Rigt gents, that battery I had was no good, or at least I hought so, It would charge, but i'd only ever get a few minutes of power from it using a single LED light, the voltage meter I have installed showed it drop fairly quickly, usually cutting out around 12.7v or so, which I think is about right......

I got a new battery this evening and when I installed it I thought I had it solved since the LED lit right away before even starting the enginge to give t any charge, unfortunately this was short lived. and a few minutes later it had lost power.

Apart from looking at everything agan, the only thing I can think is that my earth for the leisure battery might not be working, I have it connected to the load bay floor 'lip' at the front, behind the passenger seat I might take a sharp knife to it and scrape teh paint off to ensure it's a proper job.

would a dodgy earth cause the power to drain too fast? or have i totally missed something here? all teh fuses in my fuse box are low, 5-10 amps ad none are blowing......

im definately isoated from my main battery as i can allways start, but power just seems to drain so fast from the leisure battery....

[miccheck1516]

so it was the earth I think, I guess it not being earthed meant it wasn't charging the battery, scrapped away some paint and seems to be working fine now....time will tell....

[mikeB]

80Ah, weathers getting very poor here in ireland so it might be a wet weekend!

next on the agenda is covering the foam matress I have and reconsidering my storage/bed to see if I can get better access to whats stored currently I have two boxes ontop of two boxes, and geting to the bottom isn't allways the easiest endeavour...

Could I ask - what did you use to line the van interior? Some kind of thin carpet? Where  did you obtain this? I need to replace the lining on the over cab area of my motorhome and have been thinking I would use something like this. Keep up the good work - I also have a Berlingo day camper (La Parisienne, professionally converted by a boat building company on the south coast), (not the motorhome) and it has got us to some very interesting places.

[miccheck1516]

Veltrim from ebay, you can get whatever length and plenty of different colours.

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[mikeB]

Many thanks. I'll look them up

[miccheck1516]

New bits

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[Gravity]

That looks real cosy!
Hope everything is lashed down well.

I had to do an emergency stop last week, and a few bits went flying including my iPad. That reminded me to go over everything (including small things like spoons and knives) and get them fixed down tight.

Gravity.

[miccheck1516]

Mostly, but not permanently, as i like the ability to turn it into a van again at short notice, its safer than what it was, as the boxes are now covered by the bed rather than actually being the bed.... and i got rid of 3 boxes worth of stuff that i put in when i started using it as a camper and never once actually used.

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