Leisure Battery MK7

[TJTransit]

Hi, super easy question for someone who actually knows!

Should I connect my leisure battery and B2B charger to the starter or aux battery?

And any tips for which brand and aH leisure battery? Up to £150, for little fridge, laptop, usbs, lights, 2nd stereo maybe.

Thanks in advance.

[Cider Andy]

Although it's an option, most vans have a set of three 'customer' terminals on the back of the driver's seat base, each fused at 60A. It's here you should make your leisure battery connection(s).

If you're fitting a single passenger seat on a driver's seat base, you can buy a 110Ah leisure battery the same size as the van battery, likethis one, or you could always put two batteries in there. That's the plan for mine.

If I do fit two batteries, I'm undecided yet as to whether to wire them in parallel or to split the leisure circuits up over two batteries and effectively have two independent leisure systems.

The standard van alternator at 150A should be sufficient to charge all systems but you can buy a 175A version. A search for Transit ice cream van alternator should point you towards one.

[dumper]

When I fitted mine up 18 months ago the standard advice was to fit a sterling b2b to vans with smart changing I fitted two 125amp sealed batteries I was not sure which battery to wire it too rang sterling and they advised to the front aux battery so far no problems and is a very fast charger but not cheap