Leisure battery in Duetto

To remove the leisure (habitation) battery from a MK7 Transit (the Duetto base vehicle), you need to undo the 5 Torx 40 bolts which hold the driver's seat in place. This is an easy job, but be warned the seat itself is quite heavy and you may need an assistant.

When the seat is out, you will see both the hab battery (the one in front) and the vehicle battery (the rear one). They are held in place by a clamp which as a couple of relatively hard-to-get-at bolts securing it in place (watch out for the gas tube that lets hydrogen escape under the floor and make sure that it is not left disconnected).

The on-board power unit will not fully charge a hab battery (it is a power unit, not a charger), but it will do a fair job of getting some useful charge into it.

Dynamic wrote:Many thanks for this.  Now it is daylight I will connect up.

I would be grateful if you will post the manufacturer and model number of your electrical system?

willconquerer wrote:

Spospe wrote:To remove the leisure (habitation) battery from a MK7 Transit (the Duetto base vehicle), you need to undo the 5 Torx 40 bolts which hold the driver's seat in place. This is an easy job, but be warned the seat itself is quite heavy and you may need an assistant.

When the seat is out, you will see both the hab battery (the one in front) and the vehicle battery (the rear one). They are held in place by a clamp which as a couple of relatively hard-to-get-at bolts securing it in place (watch out for the gas tube that lets hydrogen escape under the floor and make sure that it is not left disconnected).

The on-board power unit will not fully charge a hab battery (it is a power unit, not a charger), but it will do a fair job of getting some useful charge into it.

We had a Mk7 Transit Duetto and both the front seats were held in with 5 x M8 Hexagon Head Bolts and was fitted with a very good 3 stage Plug-in-Systems Battery Charger under the long offside seat/bed at the rear end. It would seem that both Ford and Auto Sleeper fit whatever they have to hand to a degree

This seems a bit odd, as the Torx bolts are original Ford fit and it seems strange that AS would throw them away to replace them with other bolts. It is quire true that the detail of these vans does change quite a bit, but why throw away perfectly good bolts and pay for substitutes? Odd.

EC325 PSU is a Sargent unit with built in battery charger, which only charges either the Vehicle battery or the Habitation battery dependent on where the switch on the seperate control panel is directed.