Thread: Power to Rear Anderson Plug to charge trailer battery

Thanks Philip and I will get a couple and see how they work.

Could be a good easy alternative to what I do now.

Thanks again.

Tim,
Please come up with a better connection solution for your isolators than those poxy white plastic plugs on your units.
I love your product for its brains but the brawn of the wiring connection loses it for me.
Look at a Redarc for an idea (solid bolted lug that can take any number of variable connections)

This is especially true when you want to connect both "sides" of your units in parrallel. You end up with a pretty untidy connection which just looks naff...

IMHO of course (and a few auto spark wranglers I have come across - Redarcs get the points as you can simply crimp on a fitting for the leads and bolt it straight onto the isolator. Tidy solid connection)

S

Originally Posted by roverrescue

Tim,
Please come up with a better connection solution for your isolators than those poxy white plastic plugs on your units.
S

Hi S and most SC80 are now supplied as a complete pre wired system so there is no need to do anything more then bolt a cable to each battery.

Plus the USI-160 is already supplied with bolt connections and is smaller than anything else with anything near the switching capacity.

PLUS the new SC80+A ( DT90 ) is smaller than the standard SC80 ( 90 amps continuos ), has the same switching capacity, the main cables are not only bolted on, but they are protected by the DT90’s case. Then add to this the fact that the SC80+A ( DT90 ) also has 30 amp ACCESSORIES out put so this twin isolator not only protects the cranking battery, it also protects the auxiliary battery.

And the SC80+A ( DT90 ) is not much bigger then a pack of cards!

So can I interest you in a new isolator?

Looks like you have changed a few things - and for the better eh.

Anyways, not shopping at the moment!
I dont use an isolator - just a dirty great hunk of cable between the two plus signs and a voltmeter
Aint no better "dual battery system" to winch off and the fridge quite likes it too.

I had installed an SC80 on a friends cruiser 1HZ. I liked the unit but the naff wiring annoyed me.
Unfortunately, somehow the smoke escaped from her cruiser when I was away from town.
According to the autospark who she got to fix it when it failed, the "SC80 was broke and no longer worked"... he chucked it in the bin (just lovely) and replaced with Redarc.

To be honest the Redarc fitout did look better but I think the SC80 was a better unit for fridge life... Cest la Vie.

Good to see you have made some changes. I know where I will be looking if I need a box of cards to do the thinking for another fitout.

Peace
Steve

Hi Steve and I bet there was nothing wrong with the SC80, the auto electrician was just out to con her, because all my gear has a 5 year warranty and a life time repair guaranty, so if something had really been wrong with the SC80, it would have cost her noting more than return postage.

I don’t know where half these auto electricians keep their jobs. I have had so many complaints about them continually blaming my isolators for flat batteries and when people have them replaced with something else, suddenly, “OH buy the way your cranking battery is stuffed too”.

A stuffed cranking battery is the problem in the first place, but these half-wits don’t know how to test a battery to see if it’s the problem.

BTW, the white plugs and socket, while fiddly to fit, have proven to be ultra reliable.

I knew you wopuld look after the SC80 if it did indeed have a problem and my thoughts were it was the autospark with the problem not your unit I was pretty grumpy that he threw it out instead of leaving it in the vehicle.

My issue with the white plugs was I wanted to use both "sides" of the unit and with a single positive lead between batteries the fitout ends up messy. In Cooktown I couldnt easily source a pair of neat termination products along the lines of those Jaycar units mentioned above.

My thoughts on the cruiser going flat was it only gets run for a a few minutes a day and some other brightspark sold her a ca-ca main battery (for an alternator that barely gets to 13.2V at full noise)... anyways, the autospark "fixed" it for now with a pair of N70 AC Delcos and the Redarc. Even still I told her she needs to go for a drive down the beach every few weeks to keep the batteries happy.

Kinda like taking the dog for a walk - taking the old cruiser for a walk good for its health.

S

Originally Posted by roverrescue

Please come up with a better connection solution for your isolators than those poxy white plastic plugs on your units.

I chewed up one of the clips when I soughted out the battery box, so I just used an anderson plug.



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That's a ripper Woody.