Power to the Landy... Part 2 :-)

After faffing about with oily bits, I thought it would be a good idea to sort out the battery situation. Up until the weekend just gone, Charlie had one big battery powering everything. As I previously mentioned, this battery has been discharged a few times now, something that lead acid batteries don't like. The more times you discharge a lead acid battery, the less capacity it will have.

So after loads of questions to a couple of seasoned battery experts, I decided to go for a couple of Deka Intimidators from Brooklyn4x4. One big puppy for starting and winching, and one normal sized battery to run things like the the fridge, heated seats (!!??!), and any other plug in-able accessories.
Most people would have rewired the winch to run from the accessories battery, but that would involve messing with some more wires and that ain't my strong point... So I left it as before and basically added a second battery to power the fag lighter sockets. Add to this a Voltage Sensitive Relay and in theory we should get both batteries charged when the engine is running.