2015 Delivered Vogue Dual Battery System

[osborneparkautospark]

Here are some photo's of a custom made dual battery system we recently manufactured and installed in to the rear of a brand new Vogue.

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[osborneparkautospark]

I thought I would share some photo's of a custom dual battery system we have today fitted to a new Range Rover Sport. It is fitted with a Redarc BCDC battery management system and an all stainless tray designed to accept a full size deep cycle battery.

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[simmo1]

For the RRS are you thinking of selling this as a kit. A bit difficult for us to slip over from the east coast for an install. Any indication of likely costs, given that I fully understand that you get what you pay for.
Thanks, Simmo

[harlie]

thats nice work. I'm sure you will sell the trays.

[redsport]

You will sell lots of these if you put out a full kit, any chance of more info and a cost to the east coast ??

[gghaggis]

Tim at Traxide should have a kit fairly soon.

Cheers
Gordon

[smithy2167]

It's probably worth noting that the SDV8 (well, my 2015 Vogue SE, at least) already has a second battery - a 70AH AGM behind the right hand rear panels. The vehicle is a so-called "cold climate" model and the battery is used to help the main battery when starting in low temps and/or when the main battery is down. Otherwise, it's unused (no stop/start, thank god).

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I attached a cable to the battery (the terminals already have unused threaded posts), an inline 35A fuse to a 35A Anderson connector. The connector and length of wire are threaded through the vent hole when needed, otherwise pushed back into that space.

It ran a fridge during a recent trip without any complaints.

Regards,
Dave.

[CSBrisie]

Very interesting - thanks Dave. Would be interesting to see if an isolator could be added so you could run fridge off that 70AH when ignition was off...? Might be a question for Tim at Traxide; Also, I assume the 12V accessory outlet on the L405 has moved to the other side of the boot space has it (odd) (its right where the 2nd battery is on the L322 so easy to rewire to 2nd battery for constant feed).
cheers
Chris

[Toxic_Avenger]

To the OP in post 2... Great idea zip tying a spare fuse to the inline fuse holder.
It's the little touches that make all the difference.

[SBD4]

It's probably worth noting that the SDV8 (well, my 2015 Vogue SE, at least) already has a second battery - a 70AH AGM behind the right hand rear panels. The vehicle is a so-called "cold climate" model and the battery is used to help the main battery when starting in low temps and/or when the main battery is down. Otherwise, it's unused (no stop/start, thank god).

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I attached a cable to the battery (the terminals already have unused threaded posts), an inline 35A fuse to a 35A Anderson connector. The connector and length of wire are threaded through the vent hole when needed, otherwise pushed back into that space.

It ran a fridge during a recent trip without any complaints.

Regards,
Dave.

Isn't that battery for the stop/start function? I have read the people have disabled S/S on their cars by disconnecting the S/S battery. It's there to supply power to the various systems when the engine is off to protect the cranking battery from being drained.

EDIT: IGNORE What I said, you state no stop/start which I missed - lucky bugger.

[peter g]

My 2015.5 Vogue TDV6, has a much smaller battery where Smithy shows his 70ah. I am pretty sure my smaller unit is for the stop/start. (you do get used to it and in situations where I don,t want any hesitation I disable it.)
I gave up waiting for anyone to come up with a kit and made my own a year ago. The photos in post one were very helpful, making the rack was a bit fiddly but otherwise fairly straightforward. So far working well. I also connected the existing auxiliary outlet to this battery for permanent power, easily done as mine is on the left side. I always use a separate 2 pin socket for my frig now, after nearly setting fire to a boat years ago relying on a lighter outlet to power a phone charger !
Cheers
Peter

[camsRRS]

I thought I would share some photo's of a custom dual battery system we have today fitted to a new Range Rover Sport. It is fitted with a Redarc BCDC battery management system and an all stainless tray designed to accept a full size deep cycle battery.


I've installed this kit in the rear of my l494, with the Redarc BCDC 1240 charger and a lithium battery (pricey but a third of the weight). I also ordered the kit with a Redarc gauge to monitor both the aux battery and the car battery voltage, plus installed a bunch of usb charge ports from Jarcar and a cigarette socked, a merit socket, and replaced the standard socket with an engel socket for my fridge.

Here is a quick photo I have of the install before I had the battery in place, so the gauge is red showing no voltage on the second battery.

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[CSBrisie]

It’s worth noting that Autospark now have a lot of photos of the installation of a dual battery system to L405 and L494 on their Facebook page.
cheers

[Geedublya]

I called into Autospark when I was in Perth before Christmas and was told they have a new battery bracket coming which will hold batteries larger than 300mm long.