Warwick XL heating system

v8oholic wrote:
I think you also said you have 180W solar and two leisure batteries? Neither of which is mentioned on the website I don't think. Is that standard now?

Knowing that A/S build vans with campsites in mind, I had Marquis add another panel (80w was the largest they could get in the remaining space) & they added another 100a battery.

I do hope this is enough!

mikemelson wrote:

Knowing that A/S build vans with campsites in mind, I had Marquis add another panel (80w was the largest they could get in the remaining space) & they added another 100a battery.

I do hope this is enough!

Ah, fair enough. That sounds like a good upgrade.

v8oholic wrote:
Ah, fair enough. That sounds like a good upgrade.

I wonder what solar controller has been used and whether it is working through the EC700?  The Sargent one fitted to our EC700 vans was limited to 150W and may not have been suitable for Li batteries.

Caraman wrote:
I wonder what solar controller has been used and whether it is working through the EC700?  The Sargent one fitted to our EC700 vans was limited to 150W and may not have been suitable for Li batteries.

Unless the manual is out of date, the EC700 solar input is limited to 10A because of a polyfuse mounted on the back of it which will cut out at 10A, although it will reset itself. Sargent do make a 300W MPPT regulator these days, but with a maximum output of 20A, that's not going to work out too well, as it should exceed 10A from 180W. It would be interesting to know what they have done. The one I have now is said to be 150W and 10A, like the original version.

Update: revision 2 of the manual says that the polyfuse has been replaced by an additional fuse on the front (fuse 14) on later versions. It would be interesting to know what rating that fuse is. I only have 13 fuses.