What did you do to your WK Grand today?

[drover]

Most of these dinky controllers are rubbish, I have found the kings panels okay but I just buy the bare panel and either use my own quality controller or it feeds into a panel grid with a high quality MPPT unit, even the portables I ditched the dinky controllers and fitted a quality one....... No matter who the mob is most are the same with different stickers, some of these dinky controllers if they fail they can cook your batteries big time............ a long time ago before I swapped out the dinky unit on my new portable my aux battery started to bubble away and get hot, luckily I was washing the rig down at the time, so managed to save the battery before it was stuffed or blew, it lasted another couple of years, the controller was changed as quick as AustPost delivered.... that panel is now 7 years old and still going well.

[Nanook]

Originally Posted by drover

Most of these dinky controllers are rubbish, I have found the kings panels okay but I just buy the bare panel and either use my own quality controller or it feeds into a panel grid with a high quality MPPT unit, even the portables I ditched the dinky controllers and fitted a quality one....... No matter who the mob is most are the same with different stickers, some of these dinky controllers if they fail they can cook your batteries big time............ a long time ago before I swapped out the dinky unit on my new portable my aux battery started to bubble away and get hot, luckily I was washing the rig down at the time, so managed to save the battery before it was stuffed or blew, it lasted another couple of years, the controller was changed as quick as AustPost delivered.... that panel is now 7 years old and still going well.

Kickass used to sell a good quality waterproof unit that I've purchased before for a portable panel that I used for the Jeep's 55L fridge when I was camping or fishing. I wanted to buy another one but it looks like they don't stock it any more which is why I bought the Kings one. I wanted something small that I could mount on the battery box.

Anyway, I'll buy another of the larger controllers in a couple of weeks time as I'll mount this one on the cargo barrier behind the rear seat. At the moment the old PWM unit is keeping the battery charged so that's all I need.

[drover]

I have an old PWM unit a ProStar, it would be one of the best I reckon, it was replaced by a all singing all dancing MPPT unit in van which is huge the ProStar is now used to keep the boat battery good via an old house panel on shed roof, I was going to use it as the reg on a battery box I was going to make but decided I didn't really need an aux battery....

[Colm]

Predator Bar and ParkSide TowBar fitted

[john_char]

Hmmmmmmm


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[timsarg]

ugh i just can't think straight after looking at OA gear . The engineering on his gear is fantastic but man the finish and looks of his gear looks like it's an afterthought and just slapped ontop of the existing plastic .

[Mudguard]

Yep timsarg, I've had a few products I've had to re-work to make fit better over the years, (my dummy spit is on here somewhere) Schmick looking but lacking in powder coat quality & mounting design lacks strength