anderson connectors to tipper trailer

[Tom D]

I'd keep the trailer battery, with mine if I put it on another vehicle which doesn't have a charger it will tip it maybe 5 times on the trailer battery, perhaps more. One decent run on the landrover and its fully charged again.....

[scraggs]

The first ifor tippers used to run their power straight from the tow vehicle, one of the reasons they stopped doing it that way was you need some pretty substantial cables to run all the distance up to the battery of a truck and not melt them.

If it was mine I would buy a new battery and also wire a fused auxiliary socket to the back of the truck and then wire a plug to the battery, we use ours endlessly some days and have no trouble at all.

If you remove the battery good quality battery cables and high amp Anderson won't be very cheap anyway, and you will be stuck with using the trailer with one truck.

[Joel77]

One of my mates runs a 12v 5.5 tonne winch that's mounted on his ifor via Anderson Conecters from his tow motor & it works lovely, and his also got a booster pack with Anderson Conection so if he needs to use a diffront motor he just uses the booster,

[Dean O]

if I put in 35mm cable from the landy battery to a 175 amp Anderson socket at the rear.... then wire from the ifor battery terminals to a socket and connect it to the landy when in use..keeping the battery in place on the ifor and connected as it would be otherwise.... will this passively charge the ifor battery (or cause a problem somewhere)? or should there be some sort of charge diverter like when running a second battery for winch use, and having it charged from the alternator??

 

sorry Im a muppet when it comes to electricery