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Postby mjsroofing » Sun Nov 09, 2025 8:58 am

So I've just bought a new van for work, and I want to upgrade my leisure battery , have anyone bought and used one of these.

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Re: Leisure battery

Postby bortaf » Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:20 pm

shop around, you can find them cheaper than that, 329 on ebay and black friday isn't far away ?
You'll need to use a BtoB charger as well so factor that in as well.
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Re: Leisure battery

Postby mjsroofing » Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:17 pm

bortaf wrote:shop around, you can find them cheaper than that, 329 on ebay and black friday isn't far away ?
You'll need to use a BtoB charger as well so factor that in as well.


Thank you, I bit the bullet and ordered one off ebay for 250 and a b2b charge for 140
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Re: Leisure battery

Postby jay » Wed Nov 12, 2025 11:43 am

yes i got 2 of them 280ah ones and they are so muc better than lead acid or gel batteries. the bluetooth ones u can monitor battery percent left as well as rough time to empty which is handy. do need a lithium dc to dc charger and alithium main charger but they will charge up with a normal 12v charger but dont allow it to trickle charge, the lithium chargers will switch off once full.
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Re: Leisure battery

Postby mjsroofing » Wed Nov 12, 2025 9:48 pm

jay wrote:yes i got 2 of them 280ah ones and they are so muc better than lead acid or gel batteries. the bluetooth ones u can monitor battery percent left as well as rough time to empty which is handy. do need a lithium dc to dc charger and alithium main charger but they will charge up with a normal 12v charger but dont allow it to trickle charge, the lithium chargers will switch off once full.


I've ordered a b2b charger for van, but you got me thinking about my ups inverter, which is a battery charger also, but I think it is only a standard charger.
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Re: Leisure battery

Postby Radiofence » Sun Feb 08, 2026 10:44 pm

The charger should be a proper lifepo4 charger. There's loads of blurb on the net as to why.
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