Thread: Traxide dual battery system

Hi guys, had the Traxide dual battery system fitted to the D4 today. Anyone else have this set up !, thoughts on it ?
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Hi Folks and yes I have had a fair bit of feedback about the battery tray and the hold down bracket.

There were only a small number that were supplied with the crap bracket and why the supplier changed to that bracket is beyond me.

While I tried to get the original bracket supplied, they didn’t see a problem with the new one, so I finally bit the bullet and designed my own stainless steel battery tray, which is now supplied with a plastic hold down bracket that sits well clear of everything around it.

The new tray is easier to fit and has been specifically designed for use with an Optima D34 Yellow Top battery and this also sits well clear of everything in the engine bay.

Also all kits supplied from now on, that come with the additional rear power socket, are now supplied with my new 30 amp Low Voltage Cut-Out unit, the BG-25.

I have been planning to add the BG-25 to all my kits some time ago but while I have had test units in operation for about 4 years, I just didn’t have the time to get the new unit into a production version.

The reason I finally got the units into production was because of a number of events that occurred since Christmas.

One arrogant new D4 owner, and not one of my customers, ranted about how he was not happy with the way his fridge didn’t run as long as it did in his previous LC100 before the battery was flat, which had the same D34 battery.

This was a load of crap as the D4 set up gave his D34 twice the capacity but trying to tell him running the D34 flat was not the best thing for his battery was a waste of time.

Then in a matter of a few weeks, I had a number of customers running their auxiliary batteries flat, but didn’t know it was a No-No to this, they all thought the battery was like a fuel tank and you could “empty” the auxiliary battery.

So to save people from damaging their auxiliary batteries, the kits now come with the BG-25.

All the new kits are now easier to fit as more of the kit is supplied as a pre-assembled Plug-N-Play install.