X-Eng Split Charge Unit

Anyne got a X-Eng split charge system? If so how do you find it, looks very simple and seems to be effective from what I've read, but I've seen one, ith's between that and a T-Max system??

Good. had mine fitted for 2 years, no bother. run winch, fridge, driving lights, laptop, inverter. lots of electrics and its sorted my batts out.

visually you never know if its working, so I have a national luna twin voltmeter installed in the dash to, so I can see what they are both doing.

I flicked my aux lights on when parking up at work once. came back 8 hours later and the voltmeter was beeping like mad. the aux batt had drained from a pair of 120w lamps running all day! started 1st turn so obviously its doing its thing and isolating the 2 batts.

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Griffdowg, appreciate that, from what I've read it seems to be a good unit but not seen one, was gonna to run it and use twin volt meters on the dash to keep an eye on levels, easy to install to from the instructions?

Very easy. Its just a basic switching relay, nothing fancy. So if/when it breaks you just replace the relay, simples.

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i got the tmaxx one and run 2 winches and its been faultless..

i also connected two digital voltmeters so i can see what each battery is doin..

Where did you get those gauges and what sort of £ are they?

The Badger said:

Where did you get those gauges and what sort of £ are they?

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fleabay...paid about £20 each i fink

I bought and have fitted the x-eng unit in the end, it was a doddle to fit, x-eng were proper helpful and although I haven't tested it too hard as yet, seems to be the business, I'd deffo recommend!

Do you mount the secondary battery under the seat as well? I was thinking of a small leisure battery for a fridge & other small stuff, nothing amp heavy.

PaulWilde said:

Do you mount the secondary battery under the seat as well? I was thinking of a small leisure battery for a fridge & other small stuff, nothing amp heavy.

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Yep - you'll get two batteries under the seat. It's on my "to do" list.

instantsquid said:

Yep - you'll get two batteries under the seat. It's on my "to do" list.

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Excellent, i figured you might be able to, but always good to ask.

Looks like it's on my ' to do ' list now as well

Yeah, I'll try and upload some pics of how it fits tomorrow if I get a chance.

I fitted an X-Eng split charge unit in June. It was easy to fit and works well for me.

The instructions are clear and you can see them on the website before you buy the thing. I ran the thin power wire to the solenoid direct from the alternator instead of from the loom in the dash 'cos it seemed less intrusive (and 'cos I'm colour blind so didn't trust myself to get the right wire!)

Both batteries fit under the seat with the long axis of the batteries across the truck instead of along it, but you'll need a holder to keep them both in place. I bought one but only found when I tried to install it that I hadn't read its spec correctly and that my batteries were too tall for it. I replaced the threaded rods with longer ones and the thick plastic top bar with a strip of thin steel and a strip of 4mm rubber and it works fine. The other bit of the holder is a bent metal plate to flatten the floor of the battery compartment, so if you can bend metal you should be able to make one up yourself and save some dosh.

My 2nd battery drives 6(!) 12v sockets which power the fridge, satnav and phone, light and torch chargers. Lots of sockets = fewer arguments about what goes where.

I'd send a pic, but the landy is away just now getting fitted with a Webasto diesel heater with water heater sink and shower.

Good luck!

Rod

I've just fitted the x-charge to power my new winch (bought the lot at billing) happy with the installation, quite straight forward on my 300tdi. I also bought two new numax batteries from x-eng.

It seems quite a simple setup but that means that the only thing the break/replace would be the relay so quite cost effective in the long run.

Raising an old thread here...

I'm going to fit a second battery via a basic split-charge system (i.e. big meaty relay) - it's to run all the ancilliaries I've bolted onto my Ninety (extra lights, stereo, amp, inverter, power sockets, heated mirrors, and so on!)

I was planning to fit a pair of voltmeters as WLM did in his Ninety, wired through a couple of relays triggered from the ignition. It occurred to me that they will only display the individual battery voltage with the engine not running. As soon as the engine is running presumably both meters will display the voltage coming from the alternator. Correct?

I guess it's still worth fitting them - seeing the "at rest" voltage of each battery will give me an early warning if one of them is looking dodgy.

Ian.

I've got mine wired so they only show a reading when the ignition is on, and then its the batt voltage shown, I'll try and find my wiring diagram of how someone told me how to do it...

instantsquid said:

As soon as the engine is running presumably both meters will display the voltage coming from the alternator. Correct?

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Correct.

prob a silly question but, do they do the gauge in one unit to monitor 2 batterys ? I have been toying with the idea of split charge for my 101 when I upgrade the alt.

Just about to fit a winch ,so been looking at split chargers, T max are £80ish and the x-eng ones £40ish. looking at the two, tmax ones seen to have more components, do you need to buy anything else with the x-eng set up