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Subject Topic: High performance Leisure Battery
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PersonDawn1999
23/6/2018 at 2:19pm
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Hi

Newbie here. I have a VW T5 and I’m wanting to buy a high performance leisure battery. Currently I have a Lion battery, it’s four years old. I trickle charge it over winter. I use the van for trips mostly between March to October. I find that without EHU it lasts about five days before I notice the ice box in the fridge isn’t iced up. Should I turn the fridge dial to say 3? Is there a brand of battery that is amazingly high powered or is it more about using the van regularly. I have a drive in the van at least once a week between trips. Any advice?

My next trip is Winghall Farm Rutland next week.

Dawn


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Hi Dawn & welcome.
5 days of running a fridge, and presumably other things, is pretty good going for a leisure battery without EHU. If you want to go longer than that I would drive it more frequently, or if you have room fit a second battery alongside the existing one to double the capacity.

Another alternative would be to fit a solar panel to replace some of the charge lost from your existing battery.

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I would go with Colin’s suggestion and get a solar panel put on the roof.

Good luck

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A compressor fridge obviously. As stated a solar panel may help or easiest increase your capacity by fitting another leisure battery in parallel.


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Yes, I also suggest that you should try and fit a solar panel. Nasa Marine are doing a pretty good one and is flexible. Or why not try a wind generator :)https://www.nasamarine.com/. That is the manufacturer site but you can get it cheaper on other websites. Just a quick search on google shopping and I found the same solar panel on this site: . Hope this help!https://www.foxschandlery.com/nasa-semi-flexible-solar-panels-10w


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A 10w will only produce that power in perfect conditions, which we have difficulty getting at all in the UK. At most it will be 75% efficient but more likely 50%. I suspect that the fridge is pulling more than that per day.

Any panel less than 50w is a waste of money in this situation.

And to add, stick-on panels are less efficient than solid panels with an air gap below. As the temperature of the panel increases the power production reduces.



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