Thread: Discovery TD5 - Few pics of the touring build

Just a link to the page I've setup to let people follow and see the adventure that this tourer has been built for, heading up to Darwin from Melbourne taking a long & slow route to really experience the country and this great build of a Disco!.....

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Hi Rosco,

Great setup!

Which water tank and battery did you go with?

Have a great trip to Darwin and stay off the bitumen!

Cheers

Simon

Originally Posted by simonmelb

Hi Rosco,

Great setup!

Which water tank and battery did you go with?

Have a great trip to Darwin and stay off the bitumen!

Cheers

Simon

Cheers Simon......

I had the 7 seat option so removed them and sourced a 50l under-body style ute water tank that fitted perfectly in the space between the wheelarch where the seat used to be mounted on the drivers side. That was then plumbed in to an RV style filler neck mounted in the roof outside & an RV 12v water pump connected to the door mounted tap.

As for batteries I'm unsure of the make to be honest as has been some time since they went in but they are AGM deep cycle, running 2x 80ah in parallel giving the 160ah as I wanted to have plenty of power in reserve. They are fitted on the passenger, yet again where the seat used to be and I went with 2x 80ah as they fitted perfectly in the same wheelarch gap as the water tank! They are then hooked up to a RedARC dual battery solenoid to charge on the go and also an eBay 20amp solar charge controller with 100w solar panel on the roof for when camped!.... I chose to permanent roof mount the panels from a space & storage point of view and also so batteries have a constant trickle charge as AGM deep cycles like to be kept topped up. I've had an AGM in the past drop a cell before I fitted the solar due to constant drain & recharge cycles, much better for the batteries to be on some kind of trickle charge...