Thread: Dual Battery System For 98 Discovery

That is atight fit Graham, but well and truely looks acheivable. I had my converter and electronics for the LPG mounted on the opposite side of the engine bay to make sure I have enough room when it comes to fitting the snorkel. Seems like it was a good idea after looking at the pics of your engine bay. Even if I don't use that space for the snorkel, atleast I should be able to hard wire an air compressor in there in the future.

Hi Low Ranger, yip, it's a tight fit all right. Interestingly my car has an ARB compressor on the drivers side so it's a mirror image to your planned installation. Also there's a high capacity relay there for connecting the 2 batteries together although normally I run the second battery off an ETI design (Jaycar kit) battery charge controller which is mounted just behind the main battery - I have a switch to select controller / isolate / parallel through relay for the second battery.

I should add that I'm considering changing the controller to a Traxide SC40 unit as the ETI design doesn't seem to keep the second battery up to full charge all the time for some reason.