[Clever Forum Name]

That's ok thought it was a trap

They are 3 years old in May next year.

Currently they both power the system. I have two electric reels but only use the cox reel twice a week. Power up HD reel is used every day i work.

I drive 13 miles to work, stop. Then generally do about 5 - 6 moves in the day. 13 miles home. Some days i work in one street clean 15 - 20 houses then go home.

I have charged them once i think maybe* twice.

As for not working i would agree with that in a sense. My last van had a split charge relay and i went through 3 batteries in 2 years. Each one died on me. The SCR was £23...... Make of that what you will.

[Don Kee]

Good to know, thanks 👍👍👍

Problem with a normal charging unit (you probably already know) is the canbus, you can code it in but anyone with IDS wont touch it (even dealers)

I've actually managed to speak to a bloke at Dunston, but nothing came from it so....for now i think i'm just going to go for the sterling equivalent of the grippa one


From your experiance, looks like I'll be safe with powering two reels and charging once every one/two months (110ah bat) for now  so thanks for the info

[boldy1304]

https://www.facebook.com/RHTuning/      is his page he is in with the plymouth ford  i dont know about ford in general

[Clever Forum Name]

Good to know, thanks 👍👍👍

Problem with a normal charging unit (you probably already know) is the canbus, you can code it in but anyone with IDS wont touch it (even dealers)

I've actually managed to speak to a bloke at Dunston, but nothing came from it so....for now i think i'm just going to go for the sterling equivalent of the grippa one


From your experiance, looks like I'll be safe with powering two reels and charging once every one/two months (110ah bat) for now  so thanks for the info

Never ever heard of canbis issues. Canbus is a low voltage checking system I thought to identify faults like faulty bulbs etc.

Are you sure you ain't getting confused with intelligent charging. That came in on the ford transit custom in 2014 and slightly before then on crappy stop and go eco bollox. Mine doesn't have any issues. The connect was a new van. So needed a slightly more expensive SCR from Grippa.

The next two Grippa systems are having twin batteries for a one man operator. We have a van witn twin batteries for one man and is great. Only coz all vans will have leccy reels in eventually.

[Don Kee]

Yeah I know about  the issues with the regenerative braking (I dont have stop/start) but you also get issues if you try and power through the CAN (basically trying to replicate the same concept as a van with twin batteries but with a relay in the middle) the dash throws up a load of lights like an Xmas tree

You can code it in as above post, therefore giving you permanent twin batteries but its a mare (reason I wanted to do it that way was once I've had enough of the van, I was tempted to convert into a mini camper or alike)

Either way, looks like I'm going for the split you have (or same sort of thing)

@boldy - looks a decent outfit, the only issue I have is that they're 'in with the plymouth branch' and not Ford in general...
If your van goes pop, they aint going to say 'ah well, the plymouth dealer said it was ok so we'll let him off and fix it...'


Either way, this post has made me re email martyn @ vantuner, I'm booking it in for Jan lol