Ill have to ask about petcabins first as that doesn't sound fun for them or me.
Did you park under that light thinking it was the sun or for warmth.Heatings on but its pants when youve to choose between heating or tv ....my batteries cant cope with both it seems. This time next year ill be sat cosy as anything with my logburner going
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Mine are lead acid though which from my limited electrical knowledge i think if they reach 12v or less its damaging them.Tam, I have similar setup in my Hymer, twin solar mppt, twin gels etc. Test them with a load and they come out to about 90% of original capacity, so not too bad.
In the real world I get similar results as you where they drop off quickly in circumstances where you wouldn't expect them to
I've no idea either.
Not as bad down south thoughMorning Tam. It seems Bulgaria is now at the kind of temperatures I expected in previous posts on your thread. Bloody freezing. The reason I made that point was because I once went skiing there and we flew into Sofia airport. It was artic. -10C.
It seems the Balkan countries have this delayed winter as an Easterly airflow develops which outguns the Atlantic/Mediterranean mild air. If you head for the Black Sea coast it will be even colder.
Perhaps western Greece will be a bit warmer but compare and contrast with Spain
“After God created France with its mountains and sea and food and wine and sunshine he thought it was the most beautiful country in the world. People were going to get jealous, so to make things fair he decided to create the French and put them in it”
12v offload is 25% SOC.Just checked my battery voltage on panel this morning so theyve been resting through the night with nothing switched on 12v on the nail yet the panel reads 96%i thought 12v was discharged.
That was approximately 3.5 hours of heating on last night and 2 led lights ...nowt else and they were reading 12.8v when i parked up.
Never had them lower than 75% on the panel but the voltage goes below 12v quite often.
I dont get the panel's connection between volts and percentage.
. Problem with batteries you don't know how well they are going to perform until you really need then.
I fully agree, if pet friendly cabins are available thats definitely the way to go for all your sakes but if not..... I've told you what I believe to be the least stressful way (for the dogs) of handling the alternative.
Getting worried about my Banners now12v offload is 25% SOC.
I think one or both your batteries are goosed Tam, When you were at my place last September one of your solar regs was poking out over 16v if it had been doing that for any length of time the battery will be
Can't remember where your batteries are I think they are in an outside locked so if they are starting to get weak with the weather you have had the last few days the capacity will be greatly reduced.
Even with everything on I doubt if you are using much more than 35-40a/h a day so without any charge going in you should be able to last 3 days.
As for the panel readings getting the percentage right is a black art and I wouldn't take too much notice of it, I know you fitted a new panel but it will only be as good as the info sent to it from the EBL.
I would also check the voltage on the batteries with your multimeter.
On our ill fated trip to Germany in October where we spent 14 days off grid my Victron battery monitor was showing 40% in real life the batteries were down to to 20%.
Two weeks of playing around with the settings it is now accurate, you can't do that with yours.
. Vans been sitting unused for two months in Peloponnese. Got stuck in England waiting for Jab ! Wish I was as old as Lenny HB as I would have had it by now. Will my Banners be OK for another month ? Got solar and a bit of sun I presume over that time although Northernraider would know more about the amount of sun there. Up the mountain a bit so reckon 10 degrees average.
I remember back in yhe early 80's we took the horse to an Endurance competition outside Rome.
Mine are just the same. Meg sits up on a seat behind the passenger seat and looks at the passing view. Spice lies on his bed on the floor for the entire journey. Both have harnesses anchored to seat belt buckles.
Heatings on but its pants when youve to choose between heating or tv ....my batteries cant cope with both it seems
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I met a couple of brits here in Greece around Christmas time whos 2001 English registered motorhome hasnt been in the uk in 8 years lol so it definitely doesn't have an mot yet they travel all around Europe with it.Hymerbell said
'Also, MOT runs out in March...does anyone know if I am a still insured in any way if I drive it back MOT’less. I seem to remember you can drive a un MoT’d vehicle direct to MOT station .....does than include directly across Europe
I am in the same position in Poland. My MOT ran out end of Jan. DVSA were unhelpful on extending it.
I contacted my insurers - insisting the brokers put the question to the Underwriters not just taking a broker's word - U/W pay the claim not the broker. I got a very helpful reply from a named individual at AXA, who assured me that, despite the policy wording requiring an MOT to be valid as a condition of the policy, they would hold me fully covered while the MH is parked in Poland and for the journey back for the MOT. I doubt the broker's answer would have been as helpful.
I suggest you do the same, even if the same insurer, as you need an individual response. I think I pointed out that they had me covered for the premium but almost no risk for a year, also that it is impossible to SORN outside Great Britain. U/W turned down my offer to get Polish MOT equivalent as unnecessary; very helpful.
Nobody will answer about the legality of crossing other countries without MOT other than to tell you to ask each country. I have not asked, as I do not want to have a negative answer when my head is above the parapet. I have seen several posts saying that when stopped they were asked for Licence, V5C but not MOT. As for posters saying it has to be legal in UK to be legal elsewhere, my response is that it is only illegal to drive in UK without one , except direct to pre-booked MOT, so therefore the MH is legally compliant with UK law(its country of registration). How that argument would go down with other EU authorities I do not know, but they would have to be very hard-hearted not to accept it in the Covid conditions.
Of course there is also the matter of VED, but I was fortunate in that I renewed that one month before MOT expired.
Hope this helps.
Geoff
Yes ill definitely be fitting a b2b on my next van. Had i been keeping this one id have been fitting one when home but no point in me doing it now as its next owners may well be campsite users.
Take care.
That is so cute
I was shocked when I saw your latest photo‘s Tam, hope you have seen the last of bad weather like that.
I said that to him when chatting today, he was not amused.that weather just makes him feel very much at home
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