Hello All,
I hope someone may be able to give me a sanity check here. When building our van I chose to connect the elderly 3 way fridge to the leisure battery, naively thinking the solar panel would cope with the draw. As it turned out we spent a lot more time on the road than I thought we would so the battery was not up to the job. Now I am getting round to fitting the VSR and was wondering whether it would be better the keep the fridge hooked up to the leisure battery or hook the vsr up to the fridge alone?
Apart from the fridge the leisure battery runs the water and toilet pumps, diesel heater and LED lighting, so not much drain there and the solar panel/onboard charger will cope with that.
We are usually on sites with EHU for various reasons and can use gas when parked up. Obviously the leisure battery route requires someone to remember to flick a switch once the engine is off, not that I'd ever forget
I hope someone may be able to give me a sanity check here. When building our van I chose to connect the elderly 3 way fridge to the leisure battery, naively thinking the solar panel would cope with the draw. As it turned out we spent a lot more time on the road than I thought we would so the battery was not up to the job. Now I am getting round to fitting the VSR and was wondering whether it would be better the keep the fridge hooked up to the leisure battery or hook the vsr up to the fridge alone?
Apart from the fridge the leisure battery runs the water and toilet pumps, diesel heater and LED lighting, so not much drain there and the solar panel/onboard charger will cope with that.
We are usually on sites with EHU for various reasons and can use gas when parked up. Obviously the leisure battery route requires someone to remember to flick a switch once the engine is off, not that I'd ever forget