The 150 series Dual Battery Guide

[mjrandom]

Lippa, you are just up the road from me, happy to lend you the specialist crimping tools for a DIY. Much cheaper to get quality cable from somewhere like Springers and the connectors and go from there. I have bought two things from ABR for my 150 and both are now in the bin. The manual reset circuit breaker and the TPMS... Maybe a bad luck story but who knows. I like Piranha trays ( not much else).

[LeighW]

Xmas rush is on, unfortunately everyone seems to wait till close to
Xmas and then they decide I need it to go away

[kenny5000]

Hi Gents

Is there a quality off the shelf kit? ie: correct amount of wires(sizes) battery tray isolator? ect i have a diode and wanted to go the isolator way

cheers

Bryan

ARB make a kit but you should know it is not a complete kit if you are looking at that one. It doesn't have wiring/plugs etc for the rear, only the tray, redarc isolator and the pos wiring to link the batteries via the isolator and aux earth. The rest is not included in the kit!

[Brougham]

Only problem with Traxide is their current lead time of over 3 weeks.... Still waiting for mine

[LeighW]

If using a VSR, I would go with Traxide or Redarc, the Traxide unit has some niffty features
and he can supply them as a general purpose kit.

Battery trays, not a fan of Piranha but they do make a good battery tray, there is also a
guy on Ebay that makes them here and they look good also but can't remember the name
of the seller off hand.

Cheers
Leigh

[krypto]

Hi Gents

Is there a quality off the shelf kit? ie: correct amount of wires(sizes) battery tray isolator? ect i have a diode and wanted to go the isolator way

cheers

Bryan

I used the ABR Sidewinder kit and was very happy with it

[lippa]

Hi Gents

Is there a quality off the shelf kit? ie: correct amount of wires(sizes) battery tray isolator? ect i have a diode and wanted to go the isolator way

cheers

Bryan

[Brougham]

any decent dual battery system and install the boosting diode?

[Brougham]

I bought a dual battery voltage monitor that fits in a standard switch blank in the Prado 150. It was from Solid Kit from memory. Got it on advice from here, do a search and should come up.


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[LeighW]

It may be normal for that isolator, but heat is wasted energy, need I say more?

[LeighW]

Heat is wasted energy, I would buy another isolator.

[Croz]

Sorry to dig up this old chestnut bit seems more logical to ask in the original thread.

I have installed the ABR sidewinder isolator to charge an aux AGM battery in the cargo bay and note it gets fairly hot (think cup of coffee) when the car is turned off but the led is still on, Derek has confirmed this is normal but I am a little concerned. Has anyone used a heat sink or anything to dissipate this heat?

I have installed it on a stainless bracket with a 6mm Perspex plate that is fixed to the tie down strap for the main battery so it is sitting just above the battery.

[Piratepete]

Thanks for all the info available on Pradopoint. I have just had my dual battery sytem installed. Supplied and fitted myself Optima D34 (tight fit but misses AC hose), ARB battery tray. Bought from Home of 12 volt in Adelaide Redarc SBI12 & power point plate $59 (12 volt battery gauge, dual sub, cig and engel plug for fridge). Don't like mucking with auto electrics so got local guys who've been around for 50 years to do the install. Connected batteries across the top of radiator as per Euro prados, wiring down lhs chassis rail to rear tow bar, fitted Anderson plug and everything else. Did a great job, neat, easy to see where everything is, total cost $1226. ARB quoted me $1500 with no Anderson plug. Got a Lightforce LED lightbar installed at same time, the 20 inch single row combi, fitted to OEM nudge bar. Don't need original high beam the light bar is so bright. All up, very happy. Couldn't have done it without info from Pradopoint.

[drivesafe]

30amps in and 40 amps out. 20 amp inline for the fridge circuit. Got to be happy with that.
Changed the anderson outlet at the rear of the car to run off the dual battery solenoid, and have the 2nd battery charge and isolate off the car battery with the ignition. Sweet. Cheers mmm beer

Hi Pearl, could you clarify that.

Are you implying you are supplying 30 to the input of your DC/DC device and getting 40 amps out?

[mullerwh]

I currenly have a BCDC charger in the cargo area to charge a agm deepcycle battery. Do the prado put enough out to charge a third battery in the front via an isolator?