Dual Battery Systems
Tough Touring Builds Dual Battery Cases and Components to make self installation easy and affordable. Our Cases are open or enclosed and are pre-fab designed to minimise wasted space.
DC to DC - LifePO4 - Solar - 12 Volt - PPS, MPPT, AC, And Inverters... The Basics... What do the Acronyms mean?
What do I need to know to stay powered up while off Grid Living ...
To work out what sort Power Supply you need - Its Pretty Simple - You first need to work out how much power you use. Then How much room you have to carry the Gear required, and what is in your budget. With technology improvements making Lithium based batteries affordable - You now have the Choice to run household 240Volt appliences -
Your inverter Size has to at least match your chosen appliance that uses the most power, and in turn you will need batteries that can supply that amount of power to the Inverter, and the chargers in turn need to be able to re-fill the batteries each day - So you can keep going !
INVERTER = Converts 12 Volt (DC) Battery Energy into 240 Volt (AC) Household Power
MPPT SOLAR REGULATOR = Converts Solar Panel Energy (Which Fluctuates in Voltage) into Steady 12Volt Energy to safely charge your Batteries
DC to DC = A Type of Battery Charger that Takes power from another Battery but lifts its voltage to 14.5Volts to charge the second battery faster.
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Tough Touring Builds Brackets to Mount Solar Panels Safely on Campers / Roof top tents and Car roof racks.
More information here on Tough Touring Solar panel mounting Kits
Tough Touring Dual Battery Systems are Modular - we call them RPS
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* Range of 4 sizes as per below
* Modular - Add Batteries as you go, start small
* Slide or Bolt in mounts are easy to install to face, floor or inside canopies.
* Pre - built wiring looms can be purchased completed already with all Lugs attached - No solder - No Crimping.
* Experience with Design and space has made the cases the tightest fit possible
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* Cases are water resistant, bash resistant and offer highest cooling efficiency
* All Components avaialble to purchase and Assemble yourself, or kits can be purchaed pre-assembled.
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"When Setting up your truck with power - a Dual battery system, is required to stop you draining the starter battery. 240v household power is available from your vehicle if you use an inverter - Modern Lifepo4 Batteries are incredibly good at efficiently charging and powering your gear - the big thing is combining DC and Solar chargers to re-charge it all simultaniously.
Tough Touring began building battery cases in 2019 - allowing our customers to house all the components required to build their own 'Renewable power stations' for the long term touring... We've been engaged to build Renewable systems for Farmers, Tiny houses, Long term Caravan use and 4wd vehicles as well as some Commercial vehicle power systems.
Adding a Solar Panel to your vehicle - is smart way to gain Passive Energy -
Workshop calculations on battery / charger needed to do the job below:
You can substitute your own figures into these charts for a good estimate of the battery / charger combo you'll need to do the job.
