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Traxide/Battery Light Question
Hi wcryer, it sound like your alternator could be the problem but you need to get that checked at a dealers or auto electrician. As to the SC80-LR, the easiest way to check it is to measure the voltage at both batteries before and after you start the motor. If the LED is on solid on the... -
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Traxide/Battery Light Question
Hi perkj, the USI-160 has been in production, in small runs, since late 2010 and was initially developed to meet a niche area and was not intended to be a major product for us. BUT, it is proving so popular it will be going into full production in the very near future and while I did not make... -
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Traxide/Battery Light Question
Hi again folks and thanks heaps schafari, you saved me a hell of a lot of one fingered typing. All your info is spot on but for the cut-out ( isolate ) voltage. The SC80-LR cuts out when the common voltage of all the batteries drops to 12.0v or lower. Also as you pointed out, under normal... -
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Traxide/Battery Light Question
Thank bbyer, and your are correct, the SC80-LR can mask a failing cranking battery and your suggestion of disconnecting the plug in the cable that runs from the cranking battery to the SC80-LR will allow a faulty cranking battery to go flat over night. Hi wcryer, if the SC80-LR has a constant... -
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Inverter Question
Hi Joecool and no, if you reduce the size of the cable, and no cable size has yet been mentioned , but reducing the thickness of the cable because you have higher voltage available, just defeats the advantage the higher voltage offers. It never hurts to run thicker cable than is needed but... -
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Inverter Question
Hi D and running the inverter while the motor is running will be fine. Use good thick cable and your inverter will run more efficiently, and that means it won’t get so hot. -
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Inverter Question
Hi David and do you have a specific reason for using such a huge inverter? Most people find a 300w inverter will meet most of their needs and even these chew a fair bit of power but your 1600w, if run anywhere near full capacity, would not only pull a huge amount of current, your battery would... -
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Stock Battery and Cold Weather
Hi Landmark and another cause of a “weak” battery is your driving habits. How often do your drive and when you do drive, for how long? If your are not driving that often and/or do short duration drives, your battery is never going to charge properly. As overblown suggested, try putting... -
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Question for LR4 owners who upgraded from an LR3
Hi jjvd21, my wife went from a D3 ( LR3 ) to a D4 ( LR4 ) and there are quite a few noticeable differences and the style and feel of the D4’s interior is a big jump forward. The ride is better and the sound level is much lower. When the D4 first appeared, I really didn’t think there was... -
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Battery advice
Hi Rich, it should start first time every time but anyway, did you get a chance to try charging the battery or has the problem just gone away? BTW have you had any warning messages displayed. I have just had an alternator fail in my RR and got no warning before it happened. -
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Battery advice
Hi Rich, did the shop give you a quote to repair/replace your alternator? -
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Battery advice
Whether it’s the battery or not, starting like that, taking a few minutes of trying, will stuff your battery, particularly as you are not driving much to allow the battery to be charged back up again. Do you have another vehicle available and a set of jumper leads. If you do, try set the... -
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Battery advice
Hi again Rich, your problem is probably the short driving times. If you can’t borrow a battery charge then try taking the LR3 for a good drive and see if it starts easier for the next few days after your drive. If it does then all you need is a small battery charger and give the battery a... -
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Battery advice
Hi Rich, first off, do you have a battery charger and what sort of drive times do you do when you go for a drive? -
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Which Yellow Optima Battery...
This thread has nothing to do with bickering or for that matter, about my isolators. Just about every claim you have made flies in the face of what happens in the real world. For instance, you claim an alternator can’t provide enough current to charge whereas the facts are that a D3/LR3... -
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Which Yellow Optima Battery...
As with any battery, if you don’t have the voltage difference required between the battery's SoC and the charging source, you don’t have current draw by the battery and so even without knowing the voltage levels, the fact the battery was pulling 63 amps proves there was a sufficiently high... -
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Which Yellow Optima Battery...
So what were you implying in this claim? We are talking about Optima batteries fitted the LR3s, these vehicle produce around 45+ amps at idle and well over 100 amps when cruising. Just how many amps do you reckon is needed to charge a 55Ah battery. During low voltage stating tests, after... -
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Which Yellow Optima Battery...
Then once again, where is the smoking gun. What you are claiming is just not happening and in the case of those using my gear with an Optima for their auxiliary battery, are actually get the reverse happening. Quite a large number of D3, D4 and RRS owners have reported that while they have... -
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Which Yellow Optima Battery...
Having loads of experience in a given field still doesn’t correct the fact that you have it wrong about paralleling batteries, and we are talking about batteries in vehicles not batteries in RAPS or UPS set ups, which will have totally different charging regimes. We are talking about charging... -
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Which Yellow Optima Battery...
MilehighLR3, for someone so self acclaimed in this field, how can you make such a fundamental error of mistaking the requirements and limitations of wiring batteries in series as being the same for wiring batteries in parallel. There is no such requirement to wire identical SIZED batteries in... -
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Which Yellow Optima Battery...
Well MilehighLR3, I can only comment on what I have found from 20 years of designing and manufacturing Dual Battery Controllers and systems, and I have never come across a problem when paralleling different battery types that you would not find when paralleling identical battery types... -
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Which Yellow Optima Battery...
Hi MilehighLR3, and sorry mate but this is just an old wife’s tale. Many people get the requirements for wiring batteries in parallel mixed up with the limitations involved when wiring batteries in series. With the exception of batteries being used in ultra high current applications, like... -
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Second Battery Installed in LR4
Here’s a tip, do not connect anything to the negative terminal of your D4’s cranking battery. You can connect to the positive terminal as in ndrenfro’s picture, but absolutely nothing should be connected to the neg terminal. The reason is that there is a device connected between the... -
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Second Battery Installed in LR4
Hi CUCO, make your connections at the auxiliary battery’s positive terminal and the negative connects to the earth post on the inside of the guard in the auxiliary battery compartment on the driver’s side. You can then rewire the cigarette power socket in the rear cargo area to run off the... -
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CNET review of the LR4
Just goes to show what can happen when you let a moron do video clip. The differences between an LR4 and a BMW is like compering a quad bike and a tricycle. Sorry but that was a waste of time.
