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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: gords on December 17, 2004, 16:54:59

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: gords on December 17, 2004, 16:54:59

Where is the usual/best place to put a second battery in a Discovery? The engine bay looks pretty much occupied to me :?

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: dawdler on December 17, 2004, 17:30:48

I put my second battery where the jack and wheel chock is, on the right hand side of the engine bay behind the N/S headlight

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: fesuvious on December 17, 2004, 18:57:05

ditto that

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: Sooty on December 17, 2004, 20:19:59

There is a battery tray there on all the discos I have seen, that is were mine is.
The jack is then secured on the top of the inner wing next to the turret top.
My motor has been stood on it nose and they are both still in place.

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: gords on December 17, 2004, 20:53:45

So, is it ready to take the standard battery fixing brackets as well then?

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: Sooty on December 17, 2004, 21:22:01

Quote from: "gords"

So, is it ready to take the standard battery fixing brackets as well then?

Don't know I made a fixing bracket for mine but it is much the same as the other side.
Just remember if you want to do it right then the battery posts are the other way round or the post are too close to the body.

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: Andy. on December 17, 2004, 21:50:31

Can I ask, why do you want a second battery fitted, and whats involved in setting it up  :?:

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: gords on December 18, 2004, 00:05:12

Quote from: "Andy."

Can I ask, why do you want a second battery fitted,

I seem to have this habit (?) of collecting all sorts of bits of information. Then, in quiet moments all manner of "ideas" come forward. They then have to be checked for feasability, graded by importance and finally put to the finance director (assuming they are over a certain threshold) :wink:

Basically, I saw a dual charger kit, or whatever they are called, on e-bay and it made me wonder where I'd fit another battery :D  :lol:

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: gords on December 18, 2004, 00:05:50

Oh, yes, I haven't got to the stage of thinking - why :wink:

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: Sooty on December 18, 2004, 09:30:08

The reason I have a second battery is simple, I have a large caravan and 5 children, all the electrics run on 12v off the caravan internal battery or off the car (Land Rover sorry) and I have in the past come to go out in the morning only to find out that the kids after watching TV or a DVD all night with all the lights on and have only gone to bed when both batteries are flat :cry: .
So dad put a second battery on the Disco and an isolator key switch on it, the caravan runs off the second battery and when I pull up I remove the key and pocket it 8) .
Now in the morning I get up, start the car on the origanal battery and then insert the key and charge the second battery up again :D .
The winch, lights etc all run off the second battery too :wink: .

Title: 2nd battery
Post by: hobbit on December 18, 2004, 09:32:48

Its a case of not overloading the main starting battery with extras, winch, invertors etc, anything that may draw a lot of current, and risk flattening the main one

If on a split charging system, you can have the engine off while using the auxiliary battery but still able to start the motor when needed