lesiure battery life guage

ive got a trooper there is no indication of battery life or how much is left anyone put a battery moniter on theres ?and how they did it? have the new ones got them on? i know the westies have!!

Hi
Your Trooper should have a battery/water meter combined on the panel on the wardrobe. Has a previous owner been modifying it? If you can post a pic of what is there that would help us to explain.
Cheers
Stevo

Hi again
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Stevo

Hi,

Have you not got a Zig Unit?, the battery light should be on there, normally on or near the warbrobe .....

yes ive got that unit but pressing that button only says if its good or not would like a little a guage to show you how much is left as i do alot of camping with no electric,the westie has one like a led bar guage system cheers matt

See what you mean, I think it would be a great idea to have a gauge.

I will have a look out, let me know (or the forum even) if you have any luck!

I have these:
Ebay item No 200537741230
In the van and on the bike. Not a gauge I know but they give you indication of the state of your battery and are very simple to install.

HTH
Frank

Have looked at the ebay item. The led changes colour from green to amber to red. I already have this indication via the water heater switch when running on gas. Is this not on other models? If you are running your water heater on EHU the leisure battery will be charging up anyway.

Whisky.

On our van ( Symphony) pressing a button to activate the fresh water level gauge also activates the leisure battery condition meter. There are only two LEDs though one red one green. I have the Gammatronix unit wired to the "engine" battery though as I'm more concerned about the condition of that than the leisure battery.

They also do other types with multiple LEDs which may be closer to what the original poster was looking for.

ive got these i was thinking more of a proper gauge with a reading,of how much battery life is left not just led lights wich are giving you a light reading and roughly how much is in there!!

Leisure batteries usually have a cell indicator in the casing - green indicates ok, black indicates discharged and yellow indicates that it needs to be replaced. It usually reads a middle cell but doesn't indicate the state of charge of all cells - only a hydrometer will do that.

Would this sort of voltmeter be suitable
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or this battery condition meter
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or do you just a standard type car dial voltmeter?

more of a dial,like the westifalia have!