Four years on It’s around four years since I wrote the last article on the electrics. The mods have worked very well, we have used the van two or three times a month without any problems. But the Banner Leisure battery was starting to struggle. Sometimes we would see the lights flicker as the water … Read more
She came off the production line in December 1983 according to BMbikes, but she was first registered in February 1986. So she was built before 1 Jan 1984 and I can stop paying vehicle tax after 1 April 2024. I don’t know what she was doing between February 1986 and 12 December 1991, but she … Read more
They came in different ways, but all spectacular.
In China, a three mile wide spaceship blotted out the sun over Beijing and the ambassador flew down in a small craft. In Moscow a ship landed in red square. In London, a beam of light shot down from a ship in stationary orbit and the ambassador transported down it.
In Washington a ship landed…. Read more
Murphy’s Law The saga continues SO after all of the calculations and planning, there we were ready to set of for our first festival at Moffat. We had been been happy with our new battery but while I was arranging the van I noticed liquid in the battery box. Yep, it was battery acid. … Read more
More power technicalities This is hopefully the final part of the saga. ( Update – it wasn’t) I now have the Banner battery installed and I hope to keep it for a long time. In Part 1 I described how I have added some electrics to bypass the power distribution unit thus saving lots of wasted … Read more
The Leisure Battery I’m updating this as I dig out more data. To tell the truth I’m getting a bit fed up with the lack of datasheets and the standard of the data sheets that the manufacturers put out. My theory is the rise in the popularity of solar panels means that users can actually … Read more
The Nuevo comes as original with a 70AH battery and is obviously designed to be operated on regular electrical hookups with a day, or maybe two days wild camping. But that’s not what we do. We seldom use campsites and we can spend days or weeks without a mains connection. This is an account of … Read more
