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Glad to hear it Alan!
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A tiny improvement...
Continuing on the theme of constantly improving the RB without detracting from its ethos... I fancied having a gauge to monitor the health of the battery. We had discussed adding proper Volvo gauges (a bit expensive, and not really the right thing for the RB), and also adding some similar aftermarket gauges (but I only really needed a voltage meter). The answer occurred to me a few weeks ago, so I ordered one of these direct from some factory in China:
The cost was just £3.17 (delivered to my house) and it just slipped into the 12v socket I'd fitted last year. It works perfectly well, solves the problem of monitoring the battery completely and I think fits in quite well with the RB's character. :-)
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The meter itself doesn't have any USB sockets, but the 12v socket I'd fitted has two as well as the cigar lighter type output. From one of them I run a USB-c wire up to the dash so I can plug my spare cell phone in and have SATNAV as well as internet radio via the Sony head unit fitted to the car. This works pretty well and saves having to fit either a DAB radio or a stick-on SATNAV unit. I'm happy this has been a worthwhile enhancement for a tiny expenditure :-)
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Once you know if there is a discrepancy the gasget will be more useful as you will have a baseline to work from.
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Now you can add ~1V onto the displayed voltage and know whether it's charging or not - over 13.8V it's charging, below it's discharging which would be expected at idle with a high load like HRW, headlights, heater fan and wipers but should jump above 13.8V once the engine speed is above 1500rpm.
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