Ive been asked for an opinion on this? Tidy Job or not?

Looks a tidy job to me.
 
eddievanbitz said:
It is appalling!

Apart from the fact that it looks atrocious, using the batteries to power the inverter, to power the charger, to power the batteries, to power the inverter, to power the charger, to power the batteries, to power the inverter, to power the charger, to power the batteries, to power the inverter, to power the charger, to power the batteries: well you see the issue, SiFi books call this perpetual motion, which of course we all know doesn't exist!!

All this does is create heat and battery discharge

There are loads of safe, professional ways of providing inverted 220 VAC into the 13 amp sockets

I suspect that this wasn't installed professionally, as it is such a schoolboy error, and I suspect that this is a recycled throwback to the last April Fools day as no one would be that stupid to do it, especially someone who could have their arse sued off for such incompetence

Eddie Jones
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Are you saying that someone has made an :moon2:of it......:restmycase:
 
Not the neatest layout I have seen either. I dont think 240V "anything" is part of the MOT. But from a competency point of view it definitely raises issues!. Any such system need`s to isolate the Battery Charger. Which in most modern `vans is likely integrated with the distribution unit. I did manage to wire an old R-V some years back, Using a Double pole 5 way rotary switch to isolate each part of the system, and the Charger was a retrofit 40amp "Smart" charger separately fused.

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Easy enough to switch the charger off either at the charger of breaker......but will you remember EVERY TIME?
 
Anyone with half a brain can see that will never work without a Flux capacitor ! :whistle:
 
pappajohn said:
Easy enough to switch the charger off either at the charger of breaker......but will you remember EVERY TIME?
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Trouble is John on mine, switching the charger off switches several other items out at the same time!
 
Surely the power from the invertor should go to a new 240v internal 3 pin socket !! deffo looks a bit "Heath Robison" and dodgy to me.
Getting one fitted at Falcon's next month and it better not look like this !!
 
tonyidle said:
I think the clue is "cable tied to one of the rear suspension springs". As far as the work done goes it has all been said in other posts.
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It is still nothing to do with the mot and is not a fail
 
Very green idea, recycle used electricity, Now lets see an idea to recycle toilet and waste water to fresh using this example.
 
PORKSTER said:
It would do this time of night your half cut:whistle:
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I find that offensive.

It was past 9pm on a Saturday night and I was fully cut, thank you very much:mad:

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It just powers the mains inlet but it would seem more sensible it wire it to 1 or 2 sockets rather than the whole van as not only the battery charger but fridge would then work on electricity need a very good set of batteries
 
[QUOTE="pappajohn, post: 3233707, member: 172"
But it wont prevent you accidently plugging in the hookup post to the inverter outlet.[/QUOTE]

Only if you had a cable with male sockets at both ends. (y)

And I would be really concerned if some clown had supplied one of those... :clown:
 
Had to check it wasn't April 1st

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Lanerboy said:
It is still nothing to do with the mot and is not a fail
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Nothing should be fouling or attached to the suspension springs.

Doesn't matter what it is ...

Cut the cable tie then you have unsecured cable hanging under the vehicle.

If you have anything hanging off a vehicle it will fail an mot
 
DBK said:
Only if you had a cable with male sockets at both ends. (y)

And I would be really concerned if some clown had supplied one of those... :clown:


It will be as the inverter outlet will be a female socket - otherwise that would be dangerous as there would be bare pins under the flap. :)
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But the EHU input on the side of the van needs a female end on the lead, so unless I am missing something, you couldn't connect the EHU post to the inverter outlet with the supplied male/female lead.

Not saying the setup is correct, just saying you would need to make a male/male lead to plug EHU post into the inverter and a male/male lead is lethal.
 
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I responded to this with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am sure you can all relate too.

"Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid crap..................................
 
cornish boy said:
pappajohn said:
But the EHU input on the side of the van needs a female end on the lead, so unless I am missing something, you couldn't connect the EHU post to the inverter outlet with the supplied male/female lead.

Not saying the setup is correct, just saying you would need to make a male/male lead to plug EHU post into the inverter and a male/male lead is lethal.
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On VW forum, there was a guy who actually had a male to male hook up cable. His rationale was that when he installed the hook up point on his van the female connection looked neater - I kid you not

After much discussion, he defended himself by saying he always disconnected from the post first, he finally agreed it was wrong and asked for his posts to be removed.

Motorhomers eh.... What a funny bunch :)

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PeteH said:
Trouble is John on mine, switching the charger off switches several other items out at the same time!
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So if you're not on hookup you don't have those items anyway
Switching the breaker is no different than unplugging the hookup.
 
cornish boy said:
[QUOTE="pappajohn, post: 3233707, member: 172"
But it wont prevent you accidently plugging in the hookup post to the inverter outlet.
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Only if you had a cable with male sockets at both ends. (y)

And I would be really concerned if some clown had supplied one of those... :clown:[/QUOTE]
Never thought of that aspect.... But looking at that bodge nothing would surprise me.
 
Assuming the inverter outlet was a female socket, which it should be to prevent you touching exposed conductors when the inverter is switched on. And the normal power inlet into the MH is male as it should be. Then the hook up cable which you use to connect to the "power post" on site would also go inverter outlet to power inlet. IE it is NOT male to male. To put it another way, on the MH shown, assume you had plugged it into a power post as normal, then you disconnect the end from the power post and take that end to the inverter outlet and plug in there.
 
Sandancers said:
Assuming the inverter outlet was a female socket, which it should be to prevent you touching exposed conductors when the inverter is switched on. And the normal power inlet into the MH is male as it should be. Then the hook up cable which you use to connect to the "power post" on site would also go inverter outlet to power inlet. IE it is NOT male to male. To put it another way, on the MH shown, assume you had plugged it into a power post as normal, then you disconnect the end from the power post and take that end to the inverter outlet and plug in there.
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Yep, that is what I said (y)

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