Nuevo Power Use Management – Part 4

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

Nuevo Power Use Management – Part 3

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

Nuevo Power Use Management – Part 2

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

Nuevo Power Use Management – Part 1

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