ctxkid said:
Thanks CTX, one winging it's way here as I write.
ctxkid said:
Nightjar said:Condor, Bicter, CTX or any other who can help?
Have often thought about it but hesitated, would using a bread maker be out of the question while free camping, considering the bake time is around an hour?
Have a large inverter hard wired in caravan.
bicter said:Having said all that the simple solution, if fuel supply isn't a problem, would be to run the genny for the duration of cooking or crank up the camp oven
condor22 said:Nightjar. I have 2 of these in my shed, but use the BMPRO as a monitor on both van and car. Also doesn't stop under voltage unless you look at it.
https://teambmpro.com/products/bluetooth-battery-monitor-batterycheck100/
I liked these as no holes to drill, no extra wiring, just bolt on.
CTXKID - I'll certainly look at one of these as not only is there no under voltage protection on the Travel Buddy, my Engel is 26 years old and although it might have some under voltage cut out, it's lower than what I want to go to.
A 12V AGM @ 12.0 V, at rest is 50% discharged, that's as low as I want to go and what I would set the cut off to. However under load the voltage will be lower. The way I would check that is;
My Travel buddy draws 6A and is usually on for an hour at a time to heat what I cook. The Engel draws 3A, so when both are on the total current is 9A. If I set the oven for one hour and Engel on I'd have the battery at 60% so it is near 50% after an hour and then check the load voltage. Then set the device to just under that. The battery would then recover some voltage when the oven is off. That would be my worst case scenario.
What is the wiring of these things, there's little info on Ebay? i.e. what terminals are there?
condor22 said:Pablo, I have the earlier version, but even so the shunt in it will handle 100 A far more than I ever use.
As I mentioned before, there are only 2 devices I need in my van that are 240 VAC only - The ultrasonic cleaner and the toothbrush charger. They both work off a 150 W Projecta Inverter. So 15A + 10% = a max of 17A. If I used normal items the max total would be 25 A at any one time or 35 A with the heater glow pin for a minuter or so.
The other 2 are the microwave and aircon and I use the genny for them.
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