stevebus

OK fella

Sorry to go on, another thing you can do is add another battery to your solar side, that'll help

Not that I'm going to get into a dispute about it, I was told this by Marlec, and this is my case only, all a controller does is basically short circuit when the battery is fully charged, and stops gasing and frying them, to get rid of the dump, is to either get a hot water element (which is a good one) or some sort of zenor diode like you use to get old British motorcycles, the controllers you get don't do that, all the while your solar panels are up there doing their thing it's going nowhere other than trying to get somewhere, if that make sense and the power can go back to the panel and fry it, which then creates false readings, basically all the while the sun is shining that panel is taking it, giving out grunt and going nowhere, the diode will protect your panel and send it one direction, the dump, hope to god that makes sense

Thanks, useless with anything techy,

My set up, looking at the picture upside down probably portrays how it all is here😁

No worries, good luck with it all, the only thing more I'm going to say is I found that keeping the alternator side of this completely separate from the solar side worked better for me, basically what started the wagon started the wagon and what ran the inside, TV, stereo and lights just did that, all the best

Hello fella, I actually live off grid got solar and wind running different parts of my plot, I had the same problem and naturally thought its going to be the charge controller, after doing a bit of research it turned out, in my case anyway that I needed to fit one directional diodes in the live to stop it power returning to the panels, apparently, and I'm only spouting off what someone told me, if the power end up tracking back it will give you allsorts of readings, I've sent some photos of what they are with the number on it but it's so small I had to take two, hopefully you can work it out from the pictures, I think you buy 10 for pennies,

Thank you fella

Your probably right fella, I only looked to see if things were going to fly out at me, does give a little bit of info though

I don't know if someone has put this up already but a firm called Fourby have put a little fitting video up on YouTube, that explains a little

I bought a spacer from vulcan bomber, looks well made, in his instructions it does actually say "now for the fun part" being the fitting of it, I gave up,far to fiddly, even bought one of those ratchets from Sealey still not small enough to proper get in there, I've got a cam belt to do so I'll whip the pump off and do it that way its got to be easier, but many thanks @vulcan bomber all the best fella

And they are proper shiny

I will fella, mines a way off yet, still rebuilding my engine, what with stops and starts in the progress and general carry ons of life, but I will get back about it all,

Thank you fella, just got home now to find it in the post box, me personally I think you could do something with them, every little helps as they say, I'll leave a donation with the forum, thanks again

Fella that's good of you, I'll have to give you something, or maybe a donation to the forum if that's good with you

If that's an ongoing thing stellaghost I'd like one aswell if you dont mind, can you let me know how much your charging

Steve Parker is another place, he's not cheap but seems to do loads for the conversion side of things

Jesus, just seen the post, glad your OK, that could of gone anyway, happy Xmas

Your forgiven fella, it's good to hear you plodding on with it, happy Xmas mate, hopefully see you soon

I've got to be honest, I thought my 110s brake were good, I've recently jacked in driving hgvs for a living and started in the log trade, God knows why its killing me, never worked so hard in my life after sitting on my behind for the last 30 years, but I was all loaded up with my first load to deliver, honestly I got 300 yards down my lane to a T junction and it wasn't stopping, you know when you get that sweat on, frightened the life out of me, and I turned round and went home. brakes all done all round now all adjusted up, but like you or your MOT man said I think you do get use to your car what ever it maybe, its only when someone else brings it up that you start to notice, or your overloaded with logs of course

How old is the brake fluid, I think I've heard somewhere before that it does have a life expectancy, in fact I'm pretty sure it does, bit of a stab in the dark, but sometimes the simplest of things!!!

I just had an mot and the same thing, adjusted the rear brakes like Steve b said and alls good

No worries fella

With the greatest respect fella, I'm not asking anything for it, you can have it, pay the postage, there's no holes in it, I wouldn't of kept it if it had, I've put an airline down it and blocked both ends sufficiently enough to tell, I think any secondhand steel pipe is going to have rust down it being from a 30 year old engine, your shout fella