Hi Brenton, thanks for your comment. BCDC Core being air-cooled can indeed get quite hot to the touch on its heatsink when operating at full power. As long as they have good breathing space around them and even better some airflow too, that can work perfectly fine. The units are designed to begin de-rating their output over 55 deg C, so if they do get too hot they can stop charging. No risk of any thermal events that's for sure! You might instead need to think where the Kings unit is mounted and give it a bit more airflow or space around it, that may do the trick too. We hope that helps Brenton, let us know if you need a further hand.

@ ok thanks, when you say over 55 degrees C that’s the temperature of the charger itself right not ambient temperature

Yes correct! It's measure the internal temperature of the Charger, right on the circuit board and reacts from there. If ambient is well into the 40 deg C range and where the unit is mounted is much hotter anyway, it will be pretty close to this!

@ ok cool, I’ve temporarily put an 8” usb fan in front of my kings charger on the second speed and it still feels too hot to me, the heat sink is not the best

Hi, You can use a standard on/off toggle switch installed between the Orange and Green wires of the BCDC. If you want the Lithium profile selected, have it so the switch is toggled one way and the opposite for AGM/GEL (orange disconnected affectively). Hope that helps!

Hi, When the TowPro has power from the vehicle battery, you should be able to press in the Remote Head button and a Blue LED should fade in then out again to signify its in 'sleep' mode. If you don't see this initially, we recommend checking power supply to the TowPro unit by testing the Black and White wires to the unit - see if you have good battery voltage there. Further than that, it may be a bad connection of the Remote Head cable back to the main TowPro unit as well - check this out too.

Hello, You can install the BSEN500 ONLY if you have the RedVision display fitted with your manager30 system. The Bsen500 is not backwards compatible with the old-style display screen.

Hi Rob, thanks for the feedback there. At the moment, we are definitely starting to look into solutions like this, that are more of an entry-level correct. We started with these current back-planes as you see here now and we will add more in the future! I hope that somewhat answers your question, thanks again.

@ sounds great 👍

Hi Liam - at this stage we don't have a plan for this setup so far. But we have seen other 4WD retailers out there that do such mounting brackets/battery trays for such a setup, so you could consult with them and use something like our BCDC unit to charge said battery. I hope that somewhat helps! Let us know if you have any other questions.

Hi CJ, thanks for your comment. Normally we use the chassis instead of a direct connection to the battery, only to save running an extra cable through! Plus the chassis is a a big bus-bar, so useful to utilise. If you do connect the BCDC and Solar negative to the Auxiliary battery, you would then also need to connect this to the chassis too - so the BCDC can have a ground reference of the Start battery. We hope that makes sense, see how you go and any other questions let us know!

Hi Chris, thanks for your comment. When we refer to the chassis earth/ground connection, this is purely to ground the case to earth for if an event happened on the AC-side and the case were to go live. Having said that, the unit would fault and shut-down anyway if this were to occur, so normally minimal risk. We hope that helps Chris! Let us know if you have any other questions!

Hi there! You definitely can use the TVMS Rogue + RedVision Display without having the full setup of the Manager30. Use any BCDC unit, with our Smart Battery Monitor (BSEN500) as well and this can give you State of Charge, current flow into your Loads or Battery, plus voltage and temperature reading of the Aux batteries too. Hope that helps!

​@REDARCElectronics will it only work with the BSEN500 or with other shunts, like Victron?

Hi there, thanks for your comment. Our system is only design to work with the BSEN500 - using other brands likely won't communicate properly with the Display/system. We hope that helps, any other questions let us know!

Hi Andrew - sorry to hear you're having troubles with the controller. Normally if we can't get the unit to react when probing Pin 5 of the trailer socket (Blue wire connection), then its good to attempt this at the back of the TowPro main unit straight into the Blue wire there - see what happens from then. Otherwise, I'd recommend to use our Find An Installer on the website to find a nearby REDnetwork dealer in Melbourne, which we do have a few in that area! Let us know if we can help further Andrew, thanks again.

@@REDARCElectronics Thanks for the message. For the benefit of everyone else who comes looking for info: I eventually got in touch with the installer as it was under warranty. He came out and did all the tests I did, including a test light right off the back of the unit (where the blue wire connects in). Then he pulled it out (was stuck in with heavy duty double sided tape) and re-seated the cables and it came good. Then it played up again. So he replaced it with a new one and this one has so far been OK but I've only used it once. So I'm not sure what the actual problem was, if it was dodgy connections somewhere or perhaps a bad solder joint inside the unit but it's been replaced and I've learned a lot more about them in the process.

REDARCS BCDC range charge profile is a not limited to two hours. We run a 3hr40min Boost profile followed by a 20min reduced output to allow the battery to settle. Once the 20min reduced output is complete the BCDC will enter the 3hr40min Boost stage again. This will continue until the battery is charged.

I believe you need the BCDC 1240D not the 1240, hope that helps 👍

@@ChrisAnderson1971 Thank you, i know the 1240D is recommended but what will be the problem using the 1240 for lithium batteries? My motorhome is new and for being longer "off grid" i want to replace the installed battery for 2 lithium ones.

Hi Jon - to be honest you'd need to check with Ford on this to get the specs of your alternator and system. Each model Transit is probably a little different over time, so good to use your VIN and double-check!

@@REDARCElectronics I found out Transit is the same at 75.

The output Blue wire should connect to the trailer socket (7-Way or 12-Way) Trailer Brake output pin. The only wire that might connect to the pedal actuator would be the Red wire from the TowPro. But typically this is only if the vehicle is older and doesn't have any CANBUS related systems, otherwise interference can happen in that method. We hope that helps!