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Caravan battery charging from wheels

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Old Feb 19th, 2019, 21:53   #21
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When daughter acquired her XC70 she had tow hitch and electrics fitted by an independant specialist. Van has twin plugs but much to my annoyance he fitted 13 pin electrics to the car. Discovered this too late and daughter wasn’t of a mind to change things. Later found that there is no charge to the van battery as there is no connection via the 13 pin socket as the wiring simply isn’t there. Another thread somewhere suggests that this is now standard practice and 13 pin does not support charging the van battery. Info. I’ve found seems to show that only pin 10 is switched 12 volt and can be used for fridge or battery Is this correct? Looking at the gauge of the wiring to the socket it doesn’t look heavy enough for either and definitely not to have both by creating an internal connection somewhere in the 13 pin to twin 7 pin adapter, which I had thought of doing.
I fitted the hitch to my 940 myself with twin 7pin plug electrics and there is charge to the van battery.
That may well be the case for aftermarket kits, but the Volvo electric kits definitely do support battery charging. BMW have an issue with not supporting by default on uk-spec cars, but Volvo do the right thing and wire up all 12 of the pins (1 pin is reserved in the ISO spec for 'future requirements').
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Old Feb 19th, 2019, 22:13   #22
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It certainly is supported but the aftermarket electrics kit (why would you) probably doesn’t.... did the Indy specialist update the car with the towing module so that the brakes etc respond properly while towing?

The cars rated towing capacity is based on the factory towing spec that includes the software updates......
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